Hacking HR to Build an Adaptability Advantage

Traditional control systems ensure high levels of compli­ance but do so at the expense of employee creativity, entre­preneurship, and engagement. Tomorrow’s control systems will need to rely more on peer review and less on top-down supervision. The goal: organizations filled with employees who are fully capable of self-discipline....

Diversity is not only essential for the survival of a species it is also a prerequisite for long-term corporate viability. Organizations that don’t embrace and exploit a diversity of experiences, values, and capabilities will be unable to generate a rich variety of ideas, options, and experiments—the essential ingredients of strategic...

Trust and credibility are built through conscious organizational behaviors at all levels - There is trust internally and externally, among and between, employees, leaders, consumers, shareholders, society/communities etc. - with the best intentions assumed by default especially within the organization, leading to a culture of empowerment, active involvement, dialogue, value...

To evolve more rapidly, organizations must experiment more frequently.  Management processes that seek to arrive at the “one best strategy” through top-down, analytical methods must give way to models based on the biological prin­ciples of variety (generate lots of options), selec­tion (find low-cost ways to test critical assumptions), and retention...