The Accelerating Organization

"Strategy needs to reflect the human face of change."

"We can suggest some processes for developing a strategy that break with traditional approaches and reflect a world in flux."

"With the scenarios in view, managers need to explore them from the points of view of all key stakeholders"

"Use a four-phase approach to simplifying the world into scenarios"

"You must find the right balance between open-ended dialogue and forced-closure discussion."

"Managers can't concoct a new set of core values as they go along."

"The key is to inform people clearly, directly and consistently, filling in all the details of why the change needs to be made."

"The "system" supports the required behavior."

"The positive vision needs to be reinforced by subsidiary magnets: detailed, complementary visions."

"Sponsors, Doers, Enablers and Supporters."

"People should only be trained in something just before they will have a chance to apply it, and the thing that they are trained in should apply directly to a specific task that they need to accomplish."

"We need to see how the formal policies and the top management behaviors result in making the unwritten rules feel like sensible behavior in the first place."

"Operational change mechanisms have to ensure balance between processes, resources, and people."

"Teams need a mechanism to integrate everything."

"The key to success is to ensure balance between leading indicators and lagging indicators and between measures of interest to those working within a process and those observing things from outside the process."

"Most organizations wanting to become Accelerating Organizations need a structure that falls somewhere between pure decentralized autonomy and pure command and control."

"The precepts of _leadership_ are the responsibility of many people?maybe even all the people?in an organization. "

"Managers have a strategic task and an operational task to get the architecture right for their organizations."

"In the successful organizations of the Twenty-First Century, learning processes will feed a virtuous cycle: nurturing the roots of learning, so increasing learning, providing more sustenance for its roots and further increasing their yield."