The organizational tensions, hidden and obvious, constrain the ability to maximize the return on investments in innovation, infrastructure, people, and yes, acquisitions.
Organizational tensions are like check engine lights. Ignore them at your peril!
Much of the literature on organizational theory and cultural change seems to address the same problems year after year, decade after decade. Leaders struggle to break out of their business-as-usual malaise with culture assessments, reorganizations, and greater accountability—all while feeling like they are wading knee-deep in managerial mud. The tensions that arise from transformation are treated as negative forces that must be constrained or eliminated. Instead, we see opportunities to harness productive tensions as a means to drive breakthrough innovation and growth. Tuning the underlying tensions that fuel the economic engines runs head-on into one of the most difficult forces to understand and manage…human nature.
Intentional Tension: A Lever of Value Creation and Growth digs deep into the way things really work inside an enterprise, bridging the divide between objectives and execution by examining and orchestrating tensions that are intentional and productive as a value-creating feature of an enterprise.
- Visualize the tensions within and between organizations with our unique mapping tool
- Identify the sweet spots where organizational energy is stored and released
- Operate in the open…where culture is a verb!
From the authors of Respect the Weeds: Digital Transformation Rooted in Principled Leadership, Vision and Innovation, this book will challenge the way you shepherd your organization through change, be it new models or mergers, game-changing technologies or market disruptions.
