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Introduction

By john latham

The Challenge

Leaders today face increasing demands from a variety of stakeholders. The challenge is to figure out a way to create value for all the key stakeholders without taking from one to serve another. Pressures from stakeholders combined with increasing competition and advances in technology provide many dilemmas but many opportunities for the organization designer. We must get beyond the attitude of a zero-sum game and self-serving silos and create …

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Organization Design

When many people hear the words “design” and “designer,” they often think of fashion, interior design, or the design of everyday items such as glasses, salt shakers, and so forth. However, everything that is not created by nature is designed by humans (consciously or unconsciously). Thus, our human-created organizations can be purposefully designed or redesigned to produce even greater value for the multiple stakeholders. Unlike buildings or …

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Organization Architect

Like architects of buildings, organization architects must leverage what we know (the science) of organizations and systems with what is possible and not yet imagined (the art) to develop solutions that address many constraints and the needs of multiple stakeholders. There are two main types of organization architects (OAs) — formal leaders and informal leaders who help them. Formal leaders include those leading existing organizations that …

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The Framework

Leading the journey to create sustainable value for multiple stakeholders requires the flexible combination of leveraging the forces and facilitators of change with leadership activities and behaviors, organizational culture, and individual leader characteristics. The Leading Transformation Framework is composed of 14 components described in the 14 chapters of the [Re]Create book. The application of the framework concepts is addressed by our 14 …

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The Prize – Sustainable Excellence

So What? What can you expect if you decide to [re]design and [re]build your organization or a part of your organization? In other words, “what is in it for you.” What do we expect to get out of all this? First, the leadership and design approach is a more direct route to the goal of sustainable excellence than other options. Second, the direct route results in a faster journey which results in increased benefits and speed to …

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Designer & Founder

Dr. John Latham is an Organization Architect + Researcher helping leaders learn how to design and build organizations that produce sustainable value for multiple stakeholders: investors, customers, employees, suppliers and partners, society, and the natural environment. During …

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