Merry Christmas - Hope, Peace, Joy
By Michelle Malay Carter on December 24, 2008
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What Employees Want for Christmas - The Gift of Clarity
By Michelle Malay Carter on December 22, 2008
-A clear picture of their role, and clear assignments.
-A role matched to their current cognitive capability level.
-Accountability matched with requisite authority.
-A manager who adds value to their thinking. (aka has cognitive capacity one level higher than the employee)
-Explicitly defined role relationships with others as arranged by their manager. Employees shouldn’t be left to beg or manipulate others [...]
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Who Gets a Seat at the Table? What are You Trying to Do?
By Michelle Malay Carter on December 15, 2008
I mentioned Warren Kinston in a previous post. He is a high level thinker in the areas of values, hierarchies, and organizational structure.
I usually have to read his work more than once, and I walk away with some kernels of insight. Not because there are only a few kernels to be had, but because that [...]
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Innovation at Work Level 1 - A Friday Fascinating
By Michelle Malay Carter on December 12, 2008
My post, Innovation Snobbery Is Not Serving Organizations, which started as my response to Harvard Business online’s question, What’s Management’s Role in Innovation?, is one of my most visited posts.
Biased Expectations = Limited Potential
My contention is that all work is creative and all humans are wired to work. All levels of the organization are accountable to deliver [...]
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Requisite Organization Introduction Public Course - January 7, Raleigh-Durham, NC, USA
By Michelle Malay Carter on December 1, 2008
For those of you interested in learning the fundamental elements of Requisite Organization, we’re having another public course. Love to see you there!
Quite a bit of what I write and rant is rooted in Elliott Jaques’ meta-model, Requisite Organization.
On January 7th, I’ll be co-leading a short course on some of the basics of the model [...]
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