ODF + EODF April Global OD Trends Conversation

This month’s newsletter articles included:

• To Curb Burnout, Design Jobs to Better Match Employees’ Needs by Michael Leiter and Christina Maslach, HBR
• What is the Purpose of a Corporation Today?  by Aaron Yoon et al., Kellogg Insight
• How to Rapidly Test New Organisation Designs by Phanish Puranam, INSEAD Knowledge
• 5 Enduring Management Ideas from MIT Sloan’s Edgar Schein by Beth Stackpole, MIT Sloan Management Review
• The Decentralisation Paradox of Flat Companies by Joost Minnaar, Corporate Rebels
• Bonus article: Democratizing Work: Redistributing Power in Organizations for a Democratic and Sustainable Future by Julie Battilana et al., Organization Theory

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ODF + EODF March Global OD Trends Conversation

This month’s newsletter topics include:

• Redesigning How We Work by Linda Gratton, Harvard Business Review
• The Tensions Behavioral Designers Must Navigate by Ruth Schmidt, Behavioral Scientist
• How Organization Design Can Rescue SDGs by Phanish Puranam, INSEAD Knowledge
• How Microsoft’s Approach to Teams is Helping It Stay Ahead of the Competition by Tima Bansal, Forbes
• A Risk Management Playbook for Improving Organizational Resilience by Beth Stackpole, MIT Sloan Management Review
• Bonus article: What is Design Thinking? by McKinsey & Company

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ODF + EODF February Global OD Trends Conversation

This month’s newsletter topics include:

• Case study: Should Some Employees be Allowed to Work Remotely Even if Others Can’t? by Mark Bolino and Corey Phelps, Harvard Business Review
• Why Hierarchies in Organisations Aren’t All Bad by Phanish Puranam et al., INSEAD Knowledge
• Re-thinking Hierarchy by Nicolai Foss and Peter Klein, MIT Sloan Management Review (plz register for free to read full article)
• Article and video: The Mistake HR Keeps Making:  Not Thinking at Enough of a System Level? by Gary Flood, The HR Congress
• Video: An Introduction to Team and Unit Typologies by Nicolay Worren, Organization (Re)Design
• Bonus content: Orgs Behaving Badly? by Jardena London and Rob Sinclair

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ODF + EODF January Global OD Trends Conversation

This month’s newsletter topics include:

• The Permissionless Corporation by Rita McGrath and Ram Charan, Harvard Business Review
• The Power of Generosity in Ecosystems by Claudio Garcia, Strategy+Business
• Here’s How U.S. Workers and Employers Can Co-design Workplace Tech by Shalin Jyotishi, Forbes
• How Culturally Intelligent Leaders Make Decisions by David Livermore, Management.Issues
• Key Business Strategies for Stimulating Curiosity – Design Thinking Meets Agile by Steven Eppinger, MIT Management Executive Education
• Bonus: What Does it Take to Start a Union? by Ascend Editors, Harvard Business Review

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ODF + EODF December Global OD Trends Conversation

This month’s newsletter topics include:

• 4 Myths About In-person Work, Dispelled by Heidi Grant and Tal Goldhamer, Harvard Business Review
• Enabling Effective Remote Working – Principles and Patterns from Team Topologies by Eduardo da Silva et al., InfoQ
• The Skills-based Organization: A New Operating Model for Work and the Workforce by Sue Cantrell et al., Deloitte
• How to Create Effective Unit Mandates by Nicolay Worren, Organization (Re)Design
• Must I Grow a Pair of Balls to Theorize Theory in Organization and Management Studies? (academic article) by Ann Cunliffe, Organization Theory
• Bonus:  When the Agile Approach Just Isn’t Enough by Grzegorz Kuczynski, Corporate Rebels

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ODF + EODF November Global OD Trends Conversation

This month’s newsletter topics include:

• What Does Your Company Really Stand For? by Paul Ingram and Yoonjin Choi, Harvard Business Review
• Read All About It! Why Communicating Your Ideas is the Fastest Way to Engagementby Garin Rouch, HRZone
• Why Goal Cascades are Harmful (and What to Do Instead) by John Cutler, The Beautiful Mess
• (podcast) Mette Aagaard on How a Public Sector Organisation with 8,000 Employees is Exploring Autonomous Teams by Lisa Gill, Leadermorphosis
• Democratizing Work: Re-distributed Power in Organizations for a Democratic and Sustainable Future by Julie Battilana et al., Organization Theory
• Bonus content: Fixing Work That Sucks: Semco’s Step-by-step Transformation by Pim de Morree, Corporate Rebels

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ODF + EODF October Global OD Trends Conversation

This month’s newsletter topics include:

• In the Shift to Hybrid Work, Don’t Overlook Your In-person Workforce by Bhushan Sethi and Peter Brown, Strategy+Business
• Efficient Decision-making with EQ Skills in Business by Anna Maria Rostomyan, The European Business Review
• To Avoid DEI Backlash, Focus on Changing Systems – Not People by Lily Zheng, Harvard Business Review
• High Mowing School – Sociocracy Implementation Case Study by Hope Wilder, Enlivening Edge
• Climbing the Corporate Ladder When You’re Socially Disadvantaged by Winnie Jiang, Claire Harbour, and Antonie Tirard, Disrupt Your Career
• Recommended read: Why Managers Matter: The Perils of the Bossless Company by Nicolai Foss and Peter Klein, Goodreads (one of our participants found an article that had a good overview of the book at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/279332916_Why_Managers_Still_Matter)

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ODF + EODF September Global OD Trends Conversation

This month’s newsletter topics include:

• Five Ways to Harness the Power of Purpose by Sally Blount and Paul Leinwand, Strategy+Business
• Can Design Thinking Succeed in Your Organization? by David Dunne et al., MIT Sloan Management Review (become a site member for free to get 5 articles per month)
• Does Hybrid Work Actually Work? Insights from 30,000 Emails by Ben Rand, Harvard Business School
• From Reactive to Proactive: How CIOs Can Drive Enterprise Redesign by Amy Kates and Greg Kesler, InformationWeek
• Can Formal Contracts Improve Collaboration? by Nicolay Worren
• Bonus: The Critical Role of Participative Inquiry in Organization Design by Andrew Chandler

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ODF + EODF July Global OD Trends Conversation

This month’s newsletter topics include:

• Maintaining Network Connections by Lynda Gratton, Strategy+Business
• Why Organizational Agility is Critical During the Digital Revolution by Milan Dordevic, Forbes
• Design Your Organization to Match Your Strategy by Ron Carucci and Jarrod Shappell, Harvard Business Review
• Can Organization Design be Scientific? by Nicolay Worren
• What We Learned in Studying the Most Effective Founders by Martin Gonzalez and Josh Yellin
• Bonus content: Ladders of Authority, Status, Responsibility and Ideology: Towards a Typology of Hierarchy in Social Systems by Georges Romme, Systems

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ODF + EODF June Global OD Trends Conversation

This month’s newsletter topics include:

• A Philosopher’s Guide to Messy Transformation by Pia Lauritzen, Strategy+Business
• The Questions Leaders Should Ask in the New Era of Digital Transformation by George Westerman, Sloan Management Review
• Hybrid Work Should be an Exercise in Design Thinking by Rebecca Hinds, Inc.
• What the World Can Learn from Nordic Boards by Stanislav Shekshnia, INSEAD Knowledge
• Don’t Throw Out the Hierarchy Just Yet by Jeroen van Bree
• Bonus content: How to Get Better at Flatter Designs: Considerations for Shaping and Leading Organizations with Less Hierarchy by Markus Reitzig, Journal of Organization Design 

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ODF + EODF May Global OD Trends Conversation

This month’s newsletter topics include:

• Designing Work that People Love by Marcus Buckingham, Harvard Business Review
• Making ESG a Strategic Asset by Jeannie Diefenderfer, Strategy+Business
• Creating People-Centric International Organisations with AI by Ruth McLachlin, Insead Knowledge
• 10 Progressive Organizational Structures Developed by Real Companies by Joost Minnaar, Corporate Rebels
• Haphazard Organization Design is Holding Companies Back from Growth by Josh Bersin
• Bonus content: Indigenous Peoples Eager to Help Transition to ‘Future Fit’ Hydrocarbon Industry by Raylene Whitford and JP Gladu, Calgary Herald

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