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 ArchPoint | Sep 9, 2014 | Change Management, Leadership, Organization Design, Strategy & OGSM, Talent Management
Bob Landis has joined ArchPoint Consulting. For more than 26 years, Landis has been helping teams of senior leaders to convert strategy into effective execution. Most recently, Landis was Vice President, People & Organization for the global chocolate portfolio at...
by Blaze Petersen | Sep 9, 2014 | Change Management, Culture, Leadership, Marketing, Organization Design, Strategy & OGSM
Great companies are almost always made great by a few small teams. Some people may say corporate strategy made the difference. Others may say it was corporate research. However, most people on the inside would say it was a team of committed individuals who believed...
by Blaze Petersen | Sep 9, 2014 | Leadership, Strategy & OGSM
Standing atop a mountain in Switzerland watching my youngest daughter gracefully make her way down the ski slope, I couldn’t help but smile and think of Nelson Mandela. You see, she didn’t take naturally to skiing. Our three other children got the hang of it quickly,...