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Gaining Competitive Edge Through Learning
Learning can help give our organization the competitive edge, taking the lead when you'll need it the most. This article focuses on just that; how to gain that edge and keep ahead of the curve.

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Structure Builds Confidence
You have probably had some sort of structure to your day ever since first grade. Even having breakfast in the morning, lunch at noon and dinner in the evening gives form to your day. Why is this useful? How will having a structure help the business owner and/or the career changer?
Managing Marginality The Internal Consultants Dilemma
Internal and external consultants use many of the same techniques and tools, do similar work, but face very different challenges. Internal consultants work in a unique position. Their job role is to consult to the organization for which they work. It is not easy to be, at the same time, a part of an organization and function as detached and independent. Each position on the consulting continuum places different pressures on the internal than the external, making them either more or less a part of the organization. Couple with those pressures that the internal has a boss whose role is even more clearly linked to the organizational structure, politics, and rewards structure, and you have a set of forces effectively pulling the internal in different directions. Managing this position becomes paramount to success for the internal.
How to Write Better Job Descriptions
I never understood why job descriptions were such banal documents with no structure, but a laundry list of task-driven responsibilities instead – responsibilities that pretty much look the same from one organization to another. That makes no sense. They’re more than that. Or, they could be. Meanwhile, what they shouldn’t be are generic copy/paste instruments borrowed from the Internet or someone else’s workplace. That approach deprives a company of its originality. No, rather their contents should show a relationship to the larger organization, so that the person who occupies the role actually understands his or her relationship to the larger organization.

Organization Structure
Here is a lecture I wrote for a graduate class on Management. It discusses some interesting points about organization structure and how it can impact performance.

The Lattice Organization - Unleashing Individual Freedom and Creativity
Most or our organizations are built on the hierarchy principle which seems on the surface to be an efficient and effective way to set things up. Why, then, do we end up frequently going around the formal organizational structures and processes to get things done? Bill Gore, founder of the very successful Gortex Technologies organization recognized that the traditional hierarchical / authoritarian structure of organizations may not be the way to go, so he came up with the concept of “The Lattice Organization.”

Organisation structure and job specifications
It's important that in any business, people know what everyone's roles and responsibilities are. Developing your organisational structure is best done by drawing an organogram that can help you visualize your staffing structure.

Why Rewards Cause Problems #5: Rewards Discourage Risk
Nothing can be accomplished in an organization without some level of risk. Yet often the reward structure of an organization discourages people from taking a reasonable risk, so the incentives actually impede performance. The attached article shines a light on this interesting aspect.
Matrix Organization - Possible in China?
- Published by CONCHIUS in China Daily 9 June, 2009. In general, we have observed that international companies that choose to use a matrix organization in China struggle to get their organizations up to speed for a much longer period than companies that use a functional structure. A matrix organization has no clear hierarchical structure and defined responsibilities as a functional organization has. A matrix organization can take different approaches when dividing responsibilities and one of the most common approaches is project orientation.
High Performance Organization Structures and Characteristics
The search for an ideal or perfect structure is about as futile as trying to find the ideal canned improvement process to drop on the organization (or ourselves). It depends on the organization's Context and Focus (vision, values, and purpose), goals and priorities, skill and experience levels, culture, teams' effectiveness and so on. Each is unique to any organization.
Behavioral Attributes of leaders and followers within an Open Organization Structure.
Organizational design and its effects on employee behavior has become an important focus of the modern organization and its leaders. No longer can employers rely on the traditional models of design structure, function and employee interaction. The current business climate almost instinctively requires organizations and its members to become more agile in their response to the ever changing economic conditions. Organizations must learn to develop processes to share knowledge and resources across boundaries to achieve stated goals. The purpose of this article is to introduce the emerging concept of the Open Organization structure and the behavioral attributes of the leaders and followers within its system.
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