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Built to Change Organizations: Industry Influences and Performance Implications

Christopher G. Worley (CEO) and Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) define organization agility as “an evolving change and design capability, a leadership challenge that is never finished, only approached over time, but which yields consistently high levels of sustainable effectiveness.”

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Built to Change Organizations and Responsible Progress – Twin Pillars of Sustainable Success

Christopher G. Worley (CEO) and Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) propose an integration called “responsible progress” and suggest that is represents an important new stream of organization development theory.

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Agility and Organization Design: A Diagnostic Framework

This article by Christopher G. Worley (CEO) and Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) describes one comprehensive agility framework called “built to change” and the diagnostic process developed to assess an organization’s agility.

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Dealing with Rough Times: A Capabilities Development Approach to Surviving and Thriving

Susan A. Mohrman (CEO) and Christopher G. Worley (CEO) state that during rapid change and extreme threat, steering the ship is not sufficient. Leaders must introduce approaches that tap the energies of employees throughout the organization.

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Building a Change Capability at Capital One Financial

This article by Christopher G. Worley (CEO) and Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) describes the development of an enterprise-wide change capability at Capital One Financial.

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Building a Change Capability at Capital One Financial: Separating Rhetoric and Reality

This article by Christopher G. Worley (CEO) and Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) describes the development of an enterprise-wide change capability at Capital One Financial.

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Designing Organizations that are Built to Change

Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) and Christopher G. Worley (CEO) share that as the pace of globalization and social change quickens, executives are correctly calling for greater agility, flexibility and innovation from their companies.

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Designing Organizations as if Change Matters

Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) and Christopher G. Worley (CEO) share that more and more executives and management theorists are calling for agility, flexibility, and innovation in the performance of organizations.

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Reward Systems, Motivation and Organizational Change

Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) and Christopher G. Worley (CEO) argue that organizational excellence is about change. We would not have said this in the 1970s, 1980s, or perhaps even in the 1990s. Today it almost goes without saying.

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High Technology Performance Management

A. Mohrman, Jr., Susan A. Mohrman, and Christopher G. Worley explain that high technology work is complex and dynamic, requires innovation, and is highly interdependent.

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What Laws Govern the Size of a Meaningful Pay Increase?

This study by David Bowen, Christopher G. Worley, and Edward E. Lawler III examined the relationship between different size pay increases and their meaningfulness to employees.

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