Brave New Work: Are You Ready to Reinvent Your Organization?

by Aaron Dignan

Which are you willing to try? ☐ Craft a clear and compelling purpose for the organization. ☐ Craft a clear and compelling purpose for every team and every role. ☐ Ask teams to share their essential intent for the next six to twenty-four months. ☐ Clarify the metrics that matter and use them to steer. ☐ Recognize and celebrate noble failure. ☐ Replace “Is it perfect?” with “Is it safe to try?” ☐ Give everyone the freedom to choose when, where, and how they work. ☐ Clarify the decision rights held by teams and roles. ☐ Use the concept of a waterline to create guardrails around team and individual autonomy. ☐ Start distributing authority to the edge of the organization. ☐ Crowdsource and eliminate policies and processes that no longer make sense. ☐ Start by stopping a meeting, process, or habit that is holding us back. ☐ Leverage decision science to reduce bias and make objectively better choices. ☐ Use Integrative Decision Making for important collective decisions. ☐ Distinguish between reversible and irreversible decisions and treat them differently. ☐ Define spending thresholds below which no approval or advice is necessary. ☐ Replace the permission process with a robust advice process. ☐ Trade autocracy and consensus for governance by consent. ☐ Form SLAM teams—self-managing, lean, audacious, multidisciplinary—around critical initiatives. ☐ Decentralize some of the work of central functions to teams at the edge for greater context and speed. ☐ Abandon singular job titles ...

Amazing list of transformative changes