Position Papers

Longer than articles, these are thought pieces and presentations that give a deeper appreciation of, and background to, our work. You’ll find pieces here from other authors as well because, if someone has said it well, use it…

 

What is Sustainability?

Put simply, it is…

  • the capacity to endure
  • the ability to change form so as to continue fulfilling function
  • maintaining a certain level of performance without depleting resources

The characteristics of the sustainable organisation

  • organisational development is planned change
  • predictable results
  • systemic view
  • conscious action

Sustainable Organisation: a set of slides that covers

  • how to identify which phase of development your organisation is currently in
  • how to plan the progression to the next
  • why young organisations eventually need structure, despite the best intentions of the founders
  • why putting a charismatic CEO into an old organisation is a form of organisational denial
  • why serial entrepreneurs are great but serial “graceful agers” are better

and a two-part diagnostic exercise to help you identify where your organisation is situated in its development

 

 

Diagnostic exercise Part I

Diagnostic exercise Part II

 

 

Aligning the art and science of value creation means implementing strategy in such a way that your operations create value for your consumers and stakeholders… Strategy: the art of value creation Operations: the science of value creation Value Creation: determined by the consumer and stakeholder Purpose, Measure, Method Purpose: why you exist, your strategic intent, [read more...]

 

Parsons’ Pact. As Talcott Parsons was developing his grand designs for sociology, he manoeuvred around the hegemonic field of economics. In essence, he said to the economists: you, economists, study value; we, sociologists, study values. You will have claim on the economy, we will stake our claim on the social relations in which economics are [read more...]

 

After accepting that Daniel Pink has a point about organisations, then what? RSA’s animation of Daniel Pink’s Drive. The upshot is the increasing rewards result in increased performance if only manual labour is involved. But as soon as cognitive skills are required, increased rewards result in poorer performance. First lesson, pay people enough to take [read more...]

 

To the Annual General Meeting of the New Zealand Institute of Management (NZIM) How Value is Destroyed-NZIM-AGM

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