by Jacob Spangler | Feb 22, 2023 | Blog, Current Topics in Organization Design, Knowledge Base
It is easy to hate meetings. Employees spend about 18 hours a week on average in meetings, according to a 2022 Bloomberg survey, and they only decline 14% of invites even though they’d prefer to back out of 31% of them.[1] In response, companies from Meta to Shopify...
by Amy Kates and Julian Chender | Jan 18, 2023 | Blog, Current Topics in Organization Design, Knowledge Base
Wisdom is built through experience and reflection; otherwise, repeated experience only creates habit. How do you accelerate the development of a craft that normally takes decades to master? This is the question that we set out to answer when Kates Kesler, a 10-person...
by Jacob Spangler | Jan 3, 2023 | Blog, Current Topics in Organization Design, Knowledge Base
When companies improve their diversity, stock prices jump (Neale, 2018). The theory is that people in diverse groups work harder, share information more broadly, and consider a wider range of views than groups that are more homogenous in terms of race, culture,...
by Jacob Spangler | Dec 20, 2022 | Blog, Current Topics in Organization Design, Knowledge Base
In the most recent American midterm election, voters delivered a split Congress, an outcome usually understood to slow legislative progress to a near halt. When neither party is able to drive their agenda through Congress, pundits and voters alike bemoan the...
by Mackenzie Luong and Keri Macaluso | Dec 20, 2022 | Blog, Current Topics in Organization Design, Knowledge Base
Anticipating the emotions that leaders are likely to experience during the organization design process is one of the most important skills of an advisor or executive. How people feel about the design and their place in it can make or break the success of the...
by Sara Watson and Heather Oxley | Dec 15, 2022 | Blog, Current Topics in Organization Design, Knowledge Base
Despite a flurry of layoffs at Salesforce, Amazon, Meta, Google, Netflix and other tech giants, the Great Resignation and ongoing labor shortages1 continue to strain companies. With stimulus checks in the past and inflation and interest rates ballooning, customers are...
