by Richard Spoon | Jul 29, 2026 | Leadership, Organization Design, Strategy & OGSM
We live in an era obsessed with more—where constraints of any kind are viewed as the enemy. Organizations, too, are susceptible to the belief that we should spend our days chasing more: more capital, more time, more strategic latitude. We imagine that total freedom—an...
by Jose Davila | Mar 17, 2017 | Change Management, Organization Design
Last year we published an article on the essentials to effective organization design, focused on increasing the probability that a new organization design would support the execution of an organization’s goals. Of course, you followed our approach and implemented an...
by Jose Davila | Mar 16, 2017 | Organization Design
Is your organization suffering from low productivity? Do you have high employee turnover? Are communication breakdowns experienced on a regular basis? Do growth objectives seem unattainable? If you have answered “yes” to any of the above questions, the diagnosis to...
by Richard Spoon | Dec 2, 2014 | Organization Design, Strategy & OGSM
Creating and maintaining a business that lasts requires leaders with a particular vision, awareness and dedication—leaders who can morph and steady their organizations in keeping with the market and technology to the greatest long-term benefit. The previous decade has...
by Blaze Petersen | Nov 10, 2014 | Leadership, Organization Design, Strategy & OGSM
Layers in an organization eat speed, muddle messages and draw out decision-making. Like the childhood game, Telephone, when players whisper a message round a circle, layers confuse. What starts out as, “The yellow dog ran toward the hippopotamus,” after seven layers...
by Richard Spoon | Nov 9, 2014 | Organization Design
As a consultancy we get many requests for advice on how to grow. One of the first elements we assess is the sales and service teams. What we are looking for is; 1) intimacy with the customers, 2) a selling model that works, and 3) the right resourcing of the customer...
