Authors: Bruce LaRue – Dan Burden – Morel Fourman – Sarah Bowman The Compass Heading For Change It’s time to hit the reset button: to learn from our past and set a new compass heading for rebuilding our cities. Our approach must ensure health, well-being, and sustainability, and permit a renewed sense of community to […]
Integrating Strategy & Action in Knowledge-Based Organizations Introduction One of my clients, Don, was the Vice President of National Operations for one of the nation’s largest wireless telecom companies.i His team was responsible for the maintenance and operation of the entire wireless network. Their Network Operations Control Center looked like a scene from NASA Mission […]
*Originally published in 2012 on Integral Leadership Review In November 2009, Iceland residents were invited to engage in a dialogue on issues facing the nation following a total collapse of its financial system and resulting in a severe national crisis. The challenge was that of a general visioning for the society and to establish a […]
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Creating High Performing Teams in Distributed Organizations Today’s organizations are increasingly composed of individuals and teams that are geographically dispersed. Whether you lead a team of workers that telecommute part of the week or an entirely distributed organization, this article gives practical techniques for developing teams that can achieve superior results. Teams learn to self-organize […]
What Does a Blind Man and a Navy Test Pilot Have in Common? Become more situationally aware Deal better with complexity and the feeling of being overwhelmed Learn where to place your “crowbar” for maximum leverage and least effort Leverage ambiguity and uncertainty to your advantage WHEN PRESSED, MOST people admit to being “caught up” […]
We’ve all heard, “Experience is the best teacher.” Yet relying on experience alone leaves us vulnerable to reinventing the wheel and repeating yesterday’s mistakes. As the pace of change quickens, we tend to react to problems. We may feel that we lack the luxury of time to formulate a more thoughtful response. We may feel […]
Leaders have long favored a “bias for action,” and yet many leadership teams are largely dysfunctional, precisely because they fail to function as an action learning team (ALT) to execute the strategy. ALTs develop specialized, strategic capability across functions, drawing together individuals with highly specialized knowledge in order to collaborate on developing and applying new […]
The parallels between high-tech battlefield and high-stakes business competition are striking. Combat units that rely on specific orders without the ability to improvise “on the run” rarely defeat their opponents. To cope, leaders need new strategic capabilities. Action Learning Teams (ALTs) are charged with generating new strategic capabilities that can’t be developed by other means, […]
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