L.E.A.D X-boards

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A leader’s job [...] is to create an environment where any individual in the organization can “connect the dots”, and choose to become a boundary spanner themselves.

Chris Fussel in 'One Mission'

Fabio Walser June 13. 2021 X-board: 'One Mission'

One Mission – boundary spanners

Fabio Walser June 12. 2021 X-board: 'One Mission'

These individuals become the backbone of the network portion of a hybrid organizational structure, connecting members of their clusters with other clusters and speeding up the adoption of the new narrative.

Chris Fussel in 'One Mission'

Fabio Walser June 11. 2021 X-board: 'One Mission'

The next step is to enable [key influencers] to become [...] “boundary spanners”, individuals who can provide critical links between two groups of people.

Chris Fussel in 'One Mission'

Fabio Walser June 10. 2021 X-board: 'One Mission'

If key, deeply interconnected individuals like these can begin to exemplify the behaviors your solid leadership help set out via your aligning narrative, then the rest of your organization will surely follow suit.

Chris Fussel in 'One Mission'

Fabio Walser June 9. 2021 X-board: 'One Mission'

Determining who these influencers are can be counterintuitive, because the org chart’s leader is often not the influencer in his or her cluster.

Chris Fussel in 'One Mission'

Fabio Walser June 8. 2021 X-board: 'One Mission'

It is essential that an aligning narrative be targeted at and communicated to these individuals. Without gaining traction with these influencers, change efforts will stall.

Chris Fussel in 'One Mission'

Fabio Walser June 7. 2021 X-board: 'One Mission'

When an organization is presenting a new narrative to its teams, it’s important to reach out first to the influencers who shape the attitudes and decisions of the organization.

Chris Fussel in 'One Mission'

Fabio Walser June 6. 2021 X-board: 'One Mission'

Relationships over missions, trust over individual accomplishment; slowly, we all started to believe that this was the approach that would bring us the tangible progress we were all there to achieve.

Chris Fussel in 'One Mission'

Fabio Walser June 5. 2021 X-board: 'One Mission'

An aligning narrative—a story that forces members to choose between small-tribe norms and the mission of the enterprise—was the linchpin in our evolution.

Chris Fussel in 'One Mission'

Fabio Walser June 4. 2021 X-board: 'One Mission'

This is the new model and state to which modern, centrally controlled organizations should aspire to if they wish to compete in the twenty-first century.

Chris Fussel in 'One Mission'

Fabio Walser June 3. 2021 X-board: 'One Mission'

This hybrid structure harnessed the speed and information-sharing capabilities offered by the informal relationships found in networks while retaining the efficiency, reliability, and predictability of a bureaucracy.

Chris Fussel in 'One Mission'

Fabio Walser June 2. 2021 X-board: 'One Mission'

One Mission – the hybrid model

Fabio Walser May 30. 2021 X-board: 'One Mission'

We maintained the predictable structure of our solid-line hierarchy [...] but the intentional creation of personal relationships among members of the bureaucratically unrelated but functionally interdependent teams allowed us to break down the walls of silos.

Chris Fussel in 'One Mission'

Fabio Walser May 29. 2021 X-board: 'One Mission'

The Task Force adapted certain aspects of networks into its own functionally siloed structure, thereby creating an entirely new hybrid model.

Chris Fussel in 'One Mission'

Fabio Walser May 28. 2021 X-board: 'One Mission'

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L.E.A.D X-boards

A leader’s job [...] is to create an environment where any individual in the organization can “connect the dots”, and choose to become a boundary spanner themselves.

One Mission – boundary spanners

These individuals become the backbone of the network portion of a hybrid organizational structure, connecting members of their clusters with other clusters and speeding up the adoption of the new narrative.

The next step is to enable [key influencers] to become [...] “boundary spanners”, individuals who can provide critical links between two groups of people.

If key, deeply interconnected individuals like these can begin to exemplify the behaviors your solid leadership help set out via your aligning narrative, then the rest of your organization will surely follow suit.

Determining who these influencers are can be counterintuitive, because the org chart’s leader is often not the influencer in his or her cluster.

It is essential that an aligning narrative be targeted at and communicated to these individuals. Without gaining traction with these influencers, change efforts will stall.

When an organization is presenting a new narrative to its teams, it’s important to reach out first to the influencers who shape the attitudes and decisions of the organization.

Relationships over missions, trust over individual accomplishment; slowly, we all started to believe that this was the approach that would bring us the tangible progress we were all there to achieve.

An aligning narrative—a story that forces members to choose between small-tribe norms and the mission of the enterprise—was the linchpin in our evolution.

This is the new model and state to which modern, centrally controlled organizations should aspire to if they wish to compete in the twenty-first century.

This hybrid structure harnessed the speed and information-sharing capabilities offered by the informal relationships found in networks while retaining the efficiency, reliability, and predictability of a bureaucracy.

One Mission – the hybrid model

We maintained the predictable structure of our solid-line hierarchy [...] but the intentional creation of personal relationships among members of the bureaucratically unrelated but functionally interdependent teams allowed us to break down the walls of silos.

The Task Force adapted certain aspects of networks into its own functionally siloed structure, thereby creating an entirely new hybrid model.

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