Hacking HR to Build an Adaptability Advantage

Tagged "no experimentation"

stefan-blobelt's picture

Adaptation requires two basic things. Fist, in order to be adaptive individual and collective learning is required. People learn best from their mistakes. Therefore, a culture that allows making mistakes is a mandatory precondition for adaptation. Second, adaptation requires some kind of variation. In order to create variation, people need...

By Stefan Blobelt on May 18, 2022
leila-ljungberg's picture

We need to let go of the power to unleash the power. 

We often live in a marketdriven and short term focused business. Short term focus from management creates a traditional organizational behavior of keeping control and power of information locked up in fancy titles. Not allowing profitable long term...

By Leila Ljungberg on May 13, 2022
perry-timms_1's picture

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...

By Perry Timms on May 12, 2022

Does upper management view itself through the lens of operations management?  Or does it view itself as more akin to a university?  This is basically the divide between exploration and exploitation:  when you have confidence that you are in the solution space, your only real concern is maximizing your gains...

By Benjamin Keep on May 10, 2022
mitchell-scott-davis's picture

Leaders who are afraid to say "I'm sorry," or "I wish I had done XXX differently," set up and propagate a culture where CYA trumps actual innovative contribution. Change cannot occur without being a threat. Individuals who bring fresh perspectives are essentially squashed. If someone challenges this by being open...

leonardo-zangrando's picture

People and companies who are not able to learn from their mistakes are unable to adapt according to the lessons learned. This compounds with the Over Regulation problem (see my other post).

The learning shouldn't be buried with the failure, instead we should develop an attitude to make...