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Endo and Exoskeleton plus natural metaphors for organizational capacity

Mike Cardus

The use of metaphors for organization development , capacity building, and change can create multiple paths for you and your team to make decisions and solve problems. Business metaphors often return to McGregor’s theory x and theory y of manager’s perceptions of workers. Do you see your business as “war”?

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Mary Barra Brings Teaming to General Motors

Harvard Business Review

When Dan Akerson became CEO in 2010, he brought a bit of daylight into the hallowed halls, breaking down siloes to urge collaboration between departments that had long stopped talking to each other — engineering and parts buyers, product development and purchasing, to name some especially critical relationships.

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