Papers, Etc.

You may find the following papers helpful in your exploration of lean culture and organizational development.

Lean Culture: Deploying Internal Strategy:

The culture of your organization will prove to be your primary competitive advantage over the long term. This paper defines a process and model for developing and deploying the internal strategy, the culture, of your organization.

Lean Teams:

To compete in today’s world of high speed processes, Six Sigma quality and continuous innovation, hierarchies have been crushed and the horizontal process rules. Managing with a focus on the horizontal flow of the core work process, highly empowered and effective teams must take responsibility for their work process. Here is a quick guide to developing effective teams that manage their process and business performance.

Organization Life Cycles:

This paper is an excerpt from Mr. Miller’s book, Barbarians to Bureaucrats and describes the rise and fall of civilizations, corporations and the leadership styles that are the cause.

An Executive Coaching Framework:

The purpose of this paper is to share a few ideas regarding the goals, approaches and ways to think about the process of executive coaching. Keep in mind that all executive coaching is designed to meet the specific needs of the client, and those needs may vary greatly.

The New Capitalism of the New Entrepreneur:

To succeed in the new economy requires a new understanding of capital, assets and liabilities. In what now seems like the ancient days of capitalism, capital was money. But the founders of Dell, Yahoo, Google, Facebook and others started with no financial capital. They had something else. This paper presents a model of the five forms of capital that make a difference today.

Whole System Design:

If you were asked to improve the organization, what would be your first impulse? What would you look at to find the needed changes? Many would go right to the organization chart and start counting the levels; the numbers of boxes reporting to each manager; and, counting spans-of-control. Is this organization? Will changing these improve the organization? Do these pictures represent the reality of relationships and behavior? They do not. An organization is a living organism, a “whole-system” and only a process that analyzes and designs that whole-system will optimize the organization’s performance.

PowerPoint Presentations

Lean Culture Part One: I broke these down into three parts simply so they would be under the maximize size allowable in WordPress. Part One deals, not so much with “lean culture” but with the subject of organizational culture in general, and the life cycle stages and leadership styles at different cultural periods of emergence and decline. This, of course, is from my Barbarians to Bureaucrats book.

Lean Culture Part Two: These slides describe some of what I feel are the important characteristics of lean culture. As an introductory presentation, this is not intended to be complete.

Lean Culture Part Three: A summary and some thoughts on implementation process.