Insights & perspectives
Insights
Ideas, work and perspectives from Grazing Minds for leaders making consequential choices.
Your operating model is your strategy, whether you designed it or not
A strategy document describes intent. The operating model determines what actually happens.
Read the insightRedesign decision rights before you redesign the org chart
A new box on the org chart changes nothing if the same person still makes the same call.
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What organization design looks like after the offsite ends
The design is easy to draw on a whiteboard. Living inside it for a year is the actual test.
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Workforce planning should start from capabilities, not headcount
A headcount plan tells you how many people. A capability plan tells you whether they can do what the strategy needs.
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The strategy-execution gap is an organizational problem
Most execution failures are not failures of will. They are failures of organizational design.
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When technology changes faster than the organization
The binding constraint on most technology agendas is not technology.
Read the insightBoards are asking the wrong question about transformation risk
Most boards track spend and milestones. Few track whether the organization can carry the change.
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