Hacking HR to Build an Adaptability Advantage

Tagged "experimentation"

kubatova-jaroslava-kukelkova-adela's picture

Adaptability means taking risk and taking risk means making sometimes mistakes. To support adaptability, the organization (managers) must encourage people in doing risky things regardless of the possibility of failure. This...

We learn from our mistakes, and often the bigger the mistake the bigger the lesson. For a company to be able to adapt it needs to have people who are willing, and encouraged, to try things and learn from them. It would not be enough to try things, fail, and...

By Jamie on May 29, 2022
mix-administrator's picture

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...