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Organizations Must Think, Communicate and Act Differently to Survive!
Grudgingly or simply out of habit it appears that most organizations try to react to their ever-changing complex environment using linear industrial age thinking. This normally means trying to make the organization a smooth running machine. Get the systems, processes and incentives right, get the strategic plan, policies and job descriptions in place, get the financials in order – and everything will be just fine. This may have worked in the past, but it is a formula for failure in our present and future chaotic economic environment.
Start your Visual Thinking Process with Mind Mapping
Leonardo daVinci did it, Aristotle did it, should you? Mind mapping is widely understood term but few people utilize it. I am amazed that even in our school systems that it still does not replace linear note taking. Mind Map represents the best of both worlds by resembling the visual aspects of a flow chart and the organizational structure of an outline.
Change starts with you
“Only Government can fix the mess we are in”, President Obama. “Government is the problem…”, Nate McCulloch Gwinnett Daily Post We speak of government as if it were our neighbor, pastor, teacher, friend or foe. It is none of these and yet it is all of these. Government, at any level, is simply an organizational structure and is incapable of any action or activity until people are inserted into the equation. Our founding fathers meant it when they said “of the people, by the people and for the people” So the problem and/or solution lie with us.

Finding and Keeping The Organizational “Keepers”
As we hopefully near the end of rough economic times, many organizations fear and dread an increase in turnover rates. In this issue of Astronology, we discuss what it takes to find and keep employees who will stay with an organization to help it succeed and grow.

How to Deal: Difficult Leaders
Your office morale is low, although your productivity is at a constant, sub par level. The atmosphere in the organization is that of sheer terror and dissatisfaction, not because of a near miss deadline, but because a supervisor has an overly authoritative approach to leading his team, or department. Such a scenario is not as far-fetched as it may seem. In many organizations, an over zealous (but well meaning) supervisor or manager may exercise severe leadership tactics in order to create the most successful team possible. Unfortunately, for the employees, such a leadership leads to dissatisfaction to the organization and later, a loss of talent for the organization as dissatisfied employees begin to leave. In this edition of Astronology, The How to Deal trilogy will discuss difficult managers.
An Organization’s Number One Asset
The continued progress of an organization depends greatly on the effectiveness with which it develops its greatest asset – it’s employees.
The Deliberate Culture and Building a Brand—FOR FREE
This critical building block in an organization is—practically—a free one. It takes thought, commitment, discipline, ability to communicate. It doesn’t take an expensive ad campaign or a better website, or even better products or services.

How to Ramp-Up New Salespeople in 90 Days
Can you build a 90 Day Orientation Program for New Salespeople? It must have the following components...
Is Buying into a Franchise right for you
Going into business by yourself can be a risky venture which is why buying into a proven franchise is often more successful and an easier option. This article explains the benefits of a franchise over going it alone in your own business.
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.

New Viral Marketing Tool!
A new consumer phenomenon is called "tagging" or "folksonomies" (short for folks and taxonomy). Tagging is powerful because consumers are creating an organizational structure for online content. Folksonomies not only enable people to file away content under tags, but, even better, share it with others by filing it under a global taxonomy that they created.
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.
RETHINKING THE ORGANIZATION OF THE FUTURE
The future lies in creating and inventing tomorrow. This can mean inventing new and exciting markets, products, services and methods…and an organizational culture capable and driven to take advantage of opportunities as they appear. These new organizations must become acutely sensitive as to who they are, what they are all about, what their culture is and then work hard to adapt to a new flow of ideas.
Beliefs, Feelings, Emotions: Leaders They Must Be Understood By Leaders
One of the characteristics needed in the new complex work environment is having the wisdom and broad perspective to see the big picture. By seeing the interrelationships of beliefs,feelings and emotions, rather than linear cause-effect chains and by seeing the overall processes required to accomplish the end rather than snap shots in a vacuum, most people will have a stronger and more valid belief in what he or she is doing. They will feel more connected and be better prepared to emotionally support the organizational effort.
The Changing World of Work
Do you find that your organization is constantly changing, that you are not sure what organization you are working for let alone your job description? Has your job changed as a result of downsizing, out sizing and rightsizing and that it leaves you with more to do and less time? Do you find that you struggle to put your life in balance and that work is an overwhelming amount of time in your life? Do you question, “Am I in the right job?” If you answer “yes” to any of these questions, you are not alone. The world of work is changing and becoming more demanding. You need to change with it. But how?
The Six Essential Steps to Having Your Business Achieve Its Goals
It has become stale at this point to discuss goals and achieving goals. Everyone knows what it takes to set and achieve goals, and there is no shortage of acronyms (e.g. GOALPOST) to help managers remember that goals are time bound, measurable, significant, etc. This begs the question of why – if everyone knows how to set and keep goals – so many businesses fail to achieve their objectives. Goal setting is sort of like New Year’s resolutions: easy to make, hard to achieve. A business coach and advisor can help ensure that you and your leadership team set appropriately aggressive goals and achieve them. There are six steps to the process.

Partnership Models
The examples cited are just some of the models where microfinance can be used as a platform to offer and deliver integrated services to clients. Like any business model, there is no single right way to offer services.2
Business Management: The Advantages of a Strategic Enterprise Office
Having a Strategic Enterprise Office (SEO) that services the entire organization, with a consistent message and methodologies is shown to be more successful than creating a number of Project Management Offices (PMOs) across the organization.
Staff Transition - Problem of Opportunity?
The relationships, knowledge and experience that reside in the minds of staff are what make an organization. Yet turnover is a constant in doing business, and maintaining that talented, knowledgeable team is a factor leader’s deal with daily. People get bored, lose focus, and feel unchallenged or under appreciated. When staff moves on, you often lose your best and brightest. How do you capture the knowledge they have accumulated, retain relationships they have developed, and transfer the skills they have mastered? Do you look for someone to replace them or is this a good time to look at organizational structure and re-evaluate job responsibilities? When a staff member leaves, is it an opportunity or a problem?
Top Seven Warning Signs of Poor Organization Design
Today’s Astronology article comes to us courtesy of Tim McConnell, a Managing Partner with McConnell HRC Inc. Do these symptoms exist in your office? Let’s examine the case of ABC Agency, whose name has been protected for purposes of this article.

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Part 4: Organization & Management
This section should include: your company's organizational structure, details about the ownership of your company, profiles of your management team, and the qualifications of your board of directors.
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.
Start your Visual Thinking Process with Mind Mapping
Leonardo daVinci did it, Aristotle did it, should you? Mind mapping is widely understood term but few people utilize it. I am amazed that even in our school systems that it still does not replace linear note taking. Mind Map represents the best of both worlds by resembling the visual aspects of a flow chart and the organizational structure of an outline.
Relationships: The Key to Organizational Success
Every company has an organizational structure which determines the duties and obligations of each employee. Each employee, from executive to manager to the employee, plays an important role in the productivity and success of the organization. In many cases channeled down organizational decisions can have a negative influence on the relationship between the supervisor and the employee which results in losses in organizational productivity and profits. Organizational relationships between supervisors and employees are the key to the success of any organization.
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.

New Viral Marketing Tool!
A new consumer phenomenon is called "tagging" or "folksonomies" (short for folks and taxonomy). Tagging is powerful because consumers are creating an organizational structure for online content. Folksonomies not only enable people to file away content under tags, but, even better, share it with others by filing it under a global taxonomy that they created.
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.
The Role of Organizational Design in 21st Century Organizations.
The world is pressed on all sides by a diminishing full-time workforce, differing cultural, generational, political, and religious views and the organization of the 21st century must be more agile than its 19th and 20th century ancestors. The role of organizational design is imperative to how the organization deals with challenges it now faces. Today’s organizational design will require an ability to share ideas, knowledge, resources and skills across organizational, generational and cultural boundaries within and outside of the organizational system for the purpose of achieving desired goals. This article addresses the role of organizational design in 21st century organization.
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