Hacking HR to Build an Adaptability Advantage

It’s obviously not the only one, but hierarchical organisations, organised by functions kill adaptability.

Many organisations are built along the Value chain, by functions, and at the end each function manager is just thinking about his/her function instead of the products or services the company creates.

Many HR policies...

Here are some signs of organizational procrastination:

• Indecisiveness: decision making takes too long and becomes 'bogged down' in process and bureaucracy; when it does happen it's often too late.

• Lethargy: leaders demonstrate little energy or

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Too often, even in small organisations, there is an assumption of traditional hierarchies "X reports to Y who reports to Z" and this is breeds an attitude of "I can't take responsibility for that". HR then compound it with a risk-averse approach "That would set a precedent"/"We can't do that...

To me it is simple. The very structures we have that make for scalable success in business also seem to strangle it from adapting. Where power, decisions and direction setting seem to be funnelled up the speed to respond, the foresight to experiment and the sense of direction with the...