Here's some awesome new scholarship on the state of teaming.
Team Performance: Nature and Antecedents of Nonnormal Distributions – by Kyle J. Bradley & Herman Aguinis, published in Organization Science September 8, 2022 (my birthday!)
This paper covers performance distributions across 200,825 teams.
Most teams aren't in the middle of potential outcomes. That sucks! We can change that!
Some takeaways.
This development tool is designed to give change-agents inside organizations clarity into their path forward, help them define and deepen strengths, and maybe give us some shared language about what we do.
Pattern languages and org analysis; RTO is bad, even if offices are good; old maps made 3D; diverging values worldwide; exit interviews
Challenges facing creativity; owning ideas from beginning to end; opinionated palettes; are we doing zines again?; randomness that didn’t fit in the first four categories
4 ways to use Pace Layers in strategy and OD work: 🚀 As a career planning tool; 🎓 As a strategy tool; 🔬 As a diagnostic or sense-making tool; 🎨 As a design tool for value-adding layers.
