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How HR Supports Organization Agility, 2/29/2016

Feb 29, 2016 | Agility, Organization Design

In this webinar, Chris Worley and Sue Mohrman, Senior Research Scientists and Directors of CEO’s Organization Design Program, describe the foundations of agility – how the full systems design using the Star Model compliments today’s VUCA world.

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Changing Tires on a Moving Car: Management Processes that Support Agility

Nov 18, 2015 | Agility, Sponsor Content, Strategic HR

The term “agility” gets tossed around a lot these days. Strategists tout the virtues of strategic agility, fast strategy, and resilience.

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Becoming Agile: How the SEAM Approach to Management Builds Adaptability

Sep 15, 2015 | Agility

Becoming Agile: How the SEAM Approach to Management Builds Adaptability illustrates the process of becoming an agile organization. Reflecting the principles presented in The Agility Factor, readers are taken on a real-world journey of transformation and change. This...

Agility’s Dirty Little Secret

May 15, 2015 | Agility, Sponsor Content

Christopher G. Worley (CEO), Thomas Williams (PwC Strategy), and Edward E. Lawler III (CEO)
The Agility Pyramid describes how the four agility routines and management processes work together to keep an organization’s capabilities effective and refreshed.

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Organization Agility and Talent Management

Apr 10, 2015 | Agility, Sponsor Content, Talent Management

This article by Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) and Christopher G. Worley (CEO) uses case studies on Netflix and oDesk to show that organizations can create an agile workforce by adopting a set of talent management practices that encourage employees to learn and develop, and by reducing the transaction costs associated with changing the skill sets in their workforce.

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Executive Team Member Needed

Apr 7, 2015 | Agility, Change Management, Sponsor Content

Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) shares how in order to survive, organizations have had to keep pace with the changes that have occurred. In the future they will have to keep up with an increasingly rapid rate of change in order to survive.

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Misconceptions Of Agility, 10/6/14, recording/slides

Oct 6, 2014 | Agility

In this webinar, Chris Worley, Tom Williams, and Ed Lawler will present and discuss several of the leading “misconceptions of agility”.

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The Agility Factor: Building Adaptable Organizations for Superior Performance

Aug 15, 2014 | Agility, Organization Design

In The Agility Factor: Building Adaptable Organizations for Superior Performance, the authors (Christopher G. Worley, Thomas D. Williams, and Edward E. Lawler III) reveal the factors that drive long-term profitability based on the practices of successful companies that have consistently outperformed their peers.

Talent Agility is Critical

Jul 7, 2014 | Agility, Sponsor Content

Although there is great agreement that organizations have to get better at changing, there is much less agreement on what organizations need to do in order to become more agile. In our recent book, The Agility Factor, Chris Worley, Tom Williams, and Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) provide an answer.

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Assessing Organization Agility: Creating Diagnostic Profiles to Guide Transformation

Apr 24, 2014 | Agility

This “short format” publication by Christopher G. Worley, Thomas D. Williams, and Edward E. Lawler III is a “tools” product that describes how to assess an organization’s level of agility. The book features two forms of assessment.

So you Want to be Agile? Find a Balance Between “Fat” and “Muscle”, 1/10/2013

Jan 10, 2013 | Agility, Organization Design

In this webinar, Chris Worley and Sue Mohrman will describe their learnings about designing organizations for agility. There are many paradoxes inherent in such designs. Agility requires accepting a certain amount of slack that absorbs the risk of investing in their future while relentlessly driving down costs in present operations; experimenting on the one hand while systematically incorporating what is learned on the other; and developing people to be ready for the future while making them expert in the present. In agile organizations, change is routine.

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Sustained High Performance and the Role of Agility

Jun 7, 2012 | Agility, Performance Management, Sponsor Content

Tom Williams (Booz & Company), Chris Worley (CEO), Niko Canner (Booz & Company) and Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) explain that “Competitive environments change continuously, and the pace of change continues to increase. Yet some companies in every industry show superior performance relative to their peers over very long periods of time. Does your company have the agility required to keep up?”

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