by mmartyn | Dec 30, 2010 | Changing Behavior, Continuous Improvement, Design, Innovation, Organizational Structure, Teams
“Why do I stand up here? I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way. You see the world looks very different up here … Just when you think you know something, you have to look at it in another way. Even...
by mmartyn | Dec 2, 2010 | Best Practices, Creativity, Culture, Enterprise Alignment, Innovation, Organizational Structure
A couple of years ago, the Harvard Business Review published an article on creativity and collaboration at Pixar. According to Ed Catmull (President of Pixar), the trick to fostering collective creativity is three fold: place creative authority for product...
by mmartyn | Nov 16, 2010 | Best Practices, Continuous Improvement, Operational Excellence, Organizational Structure, Problem Solving
“There is a golden hour between life and death. If you are critically injured you have less than 60 minutes to survive. You might not die right then; it may be three days or two weeks later, but something has happened in your body that is irreparable.”...
by mmartyn | Oct 28, 2010 | Changing Behavior, Development, Human Behavior, Leadership, Organizational Structure, Visual Management
I have written before about the importance of the structure and physical space in driving the development of right behaviors in an organization. On my last trip to Japan, I was again stuck by the way the japanese use physical space and organizational structure to...
by mmartyn | Oct 14, 2009 | Change, Human Behavior, Organizational Structure
David Logan researches and writes on Tribal Leadership. Interesting topic and I think we have much to learn from his work when it comes to better understanding how groups of people naturally organize around commonalities and bond to get work done. Of particular...
