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What is Organizational Alignment? How to Determine Which Method is Best for Your Business

Experience to Lead

The dictionary defines alignment as, “a state of agreement or cooperation [.]. If just one team doesn’t understand the organizational mission, the positive momentum of the business can be at stake. The post What is Organizational Alignment? How to Determine Which Method is Best for Your Business appeared first on Experience to Lead.

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Accelerate (XLR8)

Leading Blog

John Kotter provides that extra something we need in Accelerate (XLR8). A second system that is organized as a network that works in cooperation with the existing hierarchy. Much more leadership, not just management. He writes that management-driven hierarchies are “still absolutely necessary to make organizations work.”

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Culture Trumps Strategy, Every Time

Harvard Business Review

Many other experts, such as Senge and Kotter have certainly added to that understanding with complex and nuanced constructs, but Caldwell's invisible glue comment holds a truth. Culture is the set of habits that allows a group of people to cooperate by assumption rather than by negotiation.