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Why Restructuring Fails Without Lateral Connections — And 12 Ways to Build Them

Organization fabric needs both vertical and lateral threads. This post offers both structural and social options for the lateral connections.

Cost-Cutting Without Losing Critical Capability: The RADASC Framework

I don’t eat meat, having developed a sense that “I shouldn’t” as a spotty teenager with an emerging and sometimes confused sense of ethics and justice. 40 years later I am an avid questioner...

From Intention to “In-Tension”. Report on First Session of “Bringing Missions to Life: A Co-Inquiry”

This report summarises an event convened to help sensemaking on emerging thinking and practice on applying the Missions Leadership concept in practice.

Participative Strategy

From Intention to “In-Tension”. Report on First Session of “Bringing Missions to Life: A Co-Inquiry”

This report summarises an event convened to help sensemaking on emerging thinking and practice on applying the Missions Leadership concept in practice.

Bring the “suits” and “cardigans” together from the start…

Have you ever looked at what was going on in your organisation and thought it just wasn’t working well enough? Performance not where it needs to be, targets not met, staff survey results getting worse,...

Stirring up our strategic thinking together – am I half-baked or did you pre-cook it?

The famously eccentric inventor and philosopher R. Buckminster-Fuller (inventor of the geodesic dome and author of Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth) is once supposed to have said “Never show unfinished work”.

Organisation Design

Why Restructuring Fails Without Lateral Connections — And 12 Ways to Build Them

Organization fabric needs both vertical and lateral threads. This post offers both structural and social options for the lateral connections.

Cost-Cutting Without Losing Critical Capability: The RADASC Framework

I don’t eat meat, having developed a sense that “I shouldn’t” as a spotty teenager with an emerging and sometimes confused sense of ethics and justice. 40 years later I am an avid questioner...

From Intention to “In-Tension”. Report on First Session of “Bringing Missions to Life: A Co-Inquiry”

This report summarises an event convened to help sensemaking on emerging thinking and practice on applying the Missions Leadership concept in practice.

Culture Change

Mission-Oriented Leadership: How to Organise for Grand Challenges and Avoid the Common Pitfalls

What does it take to organize for purpose-driven, mission-focused “grand challenges”? This question arose during our research on participative strategy. In this article, we draw on our experience working with large-scale systems change and complex organisational design to illuminate the challenges of implementing Mission Leadership.

How to Facilitate Better Meetings and Workshops: The Five-Stage Framework That Actually Works

Conversations that flow well typically move through five key stages. This blog shares some thoughts on these stages for those who regularly facilitate conversations.

Why HR and OD Leaders Get Sidelined in Strategy and Organisation Design — And How to Change That

Beginning in June 2023, we ran a series of sessions to investigate the separation between ‘suits’ (strategy and organisation design) and ‘cardigans’ (organisation development and change). What are the implications of this separation for HR professionals? These leaders all too often get relegated to doing the three Cs: comms, culture and clearing up.

Executive Team Development

What Makes Senior Leadership Teams Effective? Insights From Our Research Into Executive Team Experience

We all have opinions about our leaders. Be it on what they are doing effectively, ineffectively, or not doing at all. Some of these views are based on first-hand experience and thought-through judgements whilst others reflect projections, prejudices, or unrealistic ideals.

Leadership Beyond Performance: How Executive Teams Are Responding to ESG, Purpose and Societal Pressure

Throughout 2021, we undertook an action research project into the ‘lived’ experience of executive teams. This revealed how they are increasingly confronted with existential challenges. These stretch beyond the realm of operational, performance or commercial pressures.

What’s the quality of your executive team conversation?

The psychologist Carl Jung asserted that one should apply to oneself the same methods that one proposes to use with others, and to do so “with the same relentlessness, consistency and perseverance.” With this good principle in mind, the Metalogue team recently had a working session on the “Team Dialogue Indicator™”

Change & Organisation Development

Cost-Cutting Without Losing Critical Capability: The RADASC Framework

I don’t eat meat, having developed a sense that “I shouldn’t” as a spotty teenager with an emerging and sometimes confused sense of ethics and justice. 40 years later I am an avid questioner...

From Intention to “In-Tension”. Report on First Session of “Bringing Missions to Life: A Co-Inquiry”

This report summarises an event convened to help sensemaking on emerging thinking and practice on applying the Missions Leadership concept in practice.

Dancing in the triangle: consulting relationships in complex transformation and organisational development projects

Complex organisation development projects that require strategic, structural and cultural change in large systems usually involve internal staff teams working with external consultants. The success of the work rests upon the internal and external consulting teams working together to establish a helping relationship with the client system. In this article we explore some of the challenges inherent in the internal- external partnership, and ways in which they can be set up to be successful.

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From Intention to “In-Tension”. Report on First Session of “Bringing Missions to Life: A Co-Inquiry”

This report summarises an event convened to help sensemaking on emerging thinking and practice on applying the Missions Leadership concept in practice.

Putting our insights to good use, our bite-sized blogs give leaders our latest thinking on strategy, organisation design, executive team development and culture change as well as other musings.

Latest

Why Restructuring Fails Without Lateral Connections — And 12 Ways to Build Them

Cost-Cutting Without Losing Critical Capability: The RADASC Framework

From Intention to “In-Tension”. Report on First Session of “Bringing Missions to Life: A Co-Inquiry”

Participative Strategy

From Intention to “In-Tension”. Report on First Session of “Bringing Missions to Life: A Co-Inquiry”

Bring the “suits” and “cardigans” together from the start…

Stirring up our strategic thinking together – am I half-baked or did you pre-cook it?

Organisation Design

Why Restructuring Fails Without Lateral Connections — And 12 Ways to Build Them

Cost-Cutting Without Losing Critical Capability: The RADASC Framework

From Intention to “In-Tension”. Report on First Session of “Bringing Missions to Life: A Co-Inquiry”

Culture Change

Mission-Oriented Leadership: How to Organise for Grand Challenges and Avoid the Common Pitfalls

How to Facilitate Better Meetings and Workshops: The Five-Stage Framework That Actually Works

Why HR and OD Leaders Get Sidelined in Strategy and Organisation Design — And How to Change That

Executive Team Development

What Makes Senior Leadership Teams Effective? Insights From Our Research Into Executive Team Experience

Leadership Beyond Performance: How Executive Teams Are Responding to ESG, Purpose and Societal Pressure

What’s the quality of your executive team conversation?

Change & Organisation Development

Cost-Cutting Without Losing Critical Capability: The RADASC Framework

From Intention to “In-Tension”. Report on First Session of “Bringing Missions to Life: A Co-Inquiry”

Dancing in the triangle: consulting relationships in complex transformation and organisational development projects

Uncategorised

From Intention to “In-Tension”. Report on First Session of “Bringing Missions to Life: A Co-Inquiry”

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