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The Organizational Sustainability Journey: Introduction to the Special Issue

Sep 12, 2010 | Sponsor Content, Sustainability

Susan A. Mohrman (CEO) and Christopher G. Worley (CEO) share how sustainability has become a prominent topic in the popular press, corporate boardrooms, political arenas, and academia. Conversations and debates about what it is, why it is important, what should be done about it, and how quickly we should act are pervasive.

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Built to Change Organizations: Industry Influences and Performance Implications

Apr 3, 2010 | Change Management, Performance Management, Sponsor Content

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

Feb 1, 2010 | Change Management, Sponsor Content, Sustainability

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

Nov 12, 2009 | Agility, Organization Design, Sponsor Content

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

Mar 5, 2009 | Agility, Change Management, Sponsor Content

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

May 9, 2008 | Change Management, Sponsor Content

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

May 3, 2008 | Change Management, Sponsor Content

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

Aug 6, 2006 | Agility, Change Management, Organization Design, Sponsor Content

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

Apr 5, 2006 | Agility, Change Management, Organization Design, Sponsor Content

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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Built to Change: How to Achieve Sustained Organizational Effectiveness

Jan 1, 2006 | Change Management

In this groundbreaking book, organizational effectiveness experts Edward Lawler and Christopher Worley show how organizations can be “built to change” so they can last and succeed in today’s global economy.

Reward Systems, Motivation and Organizational Change

Jan 1, 2006 | Change Management, Compensation and Benefits, Performance Management, Sponsor Content

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

Dec 23, 1988 | Digital Transformation, Innovation, Performance Management, Sponsor Content

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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