Categories: Agile, Cultural Agility, culture, Leadership, Outcomes Management, Outcomes-focused Agility, Resilience, servant leadersip, Strategy, Sustainability, Value Management
This is a bit of a different post for me.
My partner and I have crafted a set of Guiding Principles for an Adaptive Organization which I invite you to comment on in this thread.
The final version will be posted for download at www.AdaptiveOrg.com under a Creative Commons license.
All contributions whose comments are used in some way (meaning either directly or caused us to think about something differently) will be recognized in the final release.
So what would you change, drop or add?
Here are the principles (we thought ten was a nice round number):
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Act with intent through clearly defined and transparent strategic priorities that are reviewed and adjusted based on the evidence and through collaboration inside and outside of the organization
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Recognize that becoming and remaining an adaptive organization is not a project, it's hands-on, with live experiments and adjustments until it becomes the way of organizational life
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Have fully engaged and clear-the-path leadership
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Recognize shared values and principles are the necessary ingredients for people to create and sustain aligned personal and organizational purpose and adaptability
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Recognize true organizational sustainability and resilience can only be achieved by becoming adaptive in action and in thought – we do (act) so we can train the adaptive muscle in our brain
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Have a strong focus on clients/customers and engage them directly to establish overall strategic priorities, and to achieve specific initiative goals
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Hire and promote the creative and productive power of gender-balanced, intellectually, and culturally diverse teams at all levels
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Create and support a fail-forward safe environment
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Provide collaborative workspaces that can adjust to the needs of people and the organization over time
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Recognize that organizational policies exist to support the achievement of organizational and client/customer desired outcomes. When there is a conflict, the outcome wins
These principles support one another equally in achieving mastery as an adaptive organization
