Complexity of Mental Processing (CMP) is significant not only in its relationship with designing requisite organizations and optimizing managerial hierarchy. Would you like your portfolio manager to be Level 1 or Level 8?
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What do most résumé / CV experts tell you to do with your work history? Why, they tell you to make it in bullet points. Which is fine if you are at Stratum 1 or Stratum 2.
But this fails when you are trying to get a job at Level 3, the first Real Manager [...]

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One of the potential problems that the GO Society faced in their recent conference in Toronto was how to mix three disparate groups: consultants, who are always trying to convince someone to pay them money; academics, who would like to get someone to pay them money which they will then squander on research; and business [...]

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Well, I didn’t mean to password protect this. You can use a product for years and still learn a new thing about it.
Having lived in Chicago and being married to an art historian, I’ve often heard Louis Sullivan’s dictum “Form Follows Function”. At the recent Global Organizational Design Society conference in Toronto, I had [...]

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While I indeed met some people who just quite simply don’t understand high mode issues (do they understand mode at all? Cason apparently does which is a great reason for me to one of these days sit down and talk to her. John Morgan, the pastor using RO in Pinon Hills, met with her this [...]

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I’ve been attending the Global Conference on Org Design here in Toronto, and some of the things that the speakers here have been saying will be relevant to all of y’all who are high-potentials who languish in underemployment with bosses who think much smaller than you do. You’re in your thirties and weren’t tapped as [...]

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So, I am attending the Global Org Design Conference in Toronto, Ontario this week. It’s a working conference: I’m filming the sessions. Something that can actually get quite tiring. Right now I’m beat after just two days of filming. Harder than I recalled.
There are some wonderful people here. I finally met Barry and Sheila Deane [...]

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I wrote the following for another site. It will be pretty heavily edited and changed prior, but I’m pretty pleased with it as is. So I’m posting it here for y’all’s enjoyment.
I will upload the image files later. They aren’t necessary but you get a good idea of the structural changes that this company [...]

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