🌿🧭🌳 OD26: First 6 months of the newsletter ∙ Shape OrgDev+ ∙ OD goodies
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1. First 6 months of the newsletter
Half a year has passed since launching the OrgDev newsletter.
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To mark the occasion, we’ve created a Medium post with all the resources shared so far in the newsletter:
Shape OrgDev+
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OD Goodies
Curious about more resources on leading organizations?
Here’s a section with very short descriptions and links.
Jorge Arango writes about Gall’s Law and the idea of starting small and evolving from there.
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system.
Ev Williams, Medium’s CEO, writes about how all the (startup) advice you read is wrong. Correlation is not causation. Everything depends on the context. Reasons to be wary of super-confident prescriptive advice for leading an organization.
Bain introduces the Change Power Index as a measure of a company’s capacity for change.
We’re fans of Bain’s B2B Elements of Value, a well-structured tool that we used in several organizational initiatives.
What elements do the various stakeholders of this initiative value?
The OrgDev newsletter is curated by Raluca and Bülent Duagi, the team behind Sense & Change. We work as OD Advisers to high performing cross-functional teams, helping them tackle complex organizational challenges.