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Manage The Challenges of Working In a Matrix

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Matrix organizations are becoming more common as organizations grow larger, become more complex, and/or enter global markets. Old school hierarchical thinking will create a misaligned organization with low morale and low productivity. Create a RACI chart. Power and control need to be viewed differently.

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Building a Culture of Accountability

The Center For Leadership Studies

Now that we’ve teased out the difference between responsibility and accountability, let’s look at why accountability is so important, and why you should work toward building a culture of accountability at every level of your organization. Tie an employees’ job tasks as directly as possible to the organization’s strategic imperatives.

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Four Do’s and Don’ts for Leading Remote Teams

The Center For Leadership Studies

For each item, use a RACI chart to identify who will be responsible, accountable, consulted and informed. Each joined the organization for a reason and likely resonate with the organization’s mission, values, products and services. Many organizations have multiple platforms and programs for various tasks—perhaps, far too many!

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Making Team Meetings Worthwhile

The Center For Leadership Studies

A great guide for who should be in the meeting is a RACI chart: Who is responsible for actions on the topic, initiative or project? This responsibility can be rotated through the team members or by a well-organized member who enjoys this task. Invite the right people. Follow with minutes and a list of actionable items. and by when.

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How to Keep Team Meetings on Track

The Center For Leadership Studies

Some organizations insist on 25-, 45- or 50-minute meetings to allow movement and short breaks between back-to-back meetings. Follow the “Responsible Accountable Consulted Informed (RACI)” chart. This helps put each meeting on track from the Call to Order. End on time.

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How the Big Data Explosion Has Changed Decision Making

Harvard Business Review

Organizations I work with increasingly struggle to straddle two painfully polarizing operating principles. Decision rights are about how organizations “decide how to decide” who is empowered to make decisions. This conflict uncomfortably transcends traditional “centralization/decentralization” debates.

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“Nailed it.” A lesson in overcoming project complexity

Deming Institute

Many years after the curtain came down on my Camelot project, I was asked to lead the process / organization side of a large technology project. Edwards Deming taught us through the System of Profound Knowledge is the importance of understanding our organization as system. How did I figure this out? One of the things Dr. W.

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