Organizational Effectiveness and Design
OE/D Consulting
"An organization is effective if it can accomplish its purpose; it is efficient if it can maintain the willingness of individuals to cooperate." - Chester I. Barnard, early industrialist and management educator
Among early management thinkers, Barnard was uniquely prescient in capturing the two essential aspects of high-functioning organizations. Effective organizational design is not just a logical flow chart or competent business plan. When done well, it involves a smooth and sustainable flow between the technical aspects of a system and the human element. Effective organizational design is very much like the well-known yin-yang and other ancient symbols, but also aligns with exciting, new neuroscience, positive psychology, and social-emotional intelligence capacities. Perhaps most importantly, it is upstream from sustainable success in other critical areas such as:
- Change Management
- Conflict Navigation
- Critical Thinking on Social and Political Issues
- Strategic Thinking
- Talent Choreography
- Leadership Development and Management Training
- Healthy Culture
While these are often thought of as complex, highly technical, or even mysterious areas, that is a bit of a myth. There is a refreshingly straightforward path to organizational design that gets all these areas pointed in the right direction. I hope you'll consider reaching out.
Integral Process Leadership
"What Seth describes in this book would be nothing short of a revolution. It is a true embrace of what decades of positive psychology and strengths research has told us." - Cameron P., reviewer on Amazon
Integral Process Leadership (IPL) originates from explorations in my book The Merlin Advantage. IPL represents the most innovative and transformative step you can take when it comes to organizational design.
When fully deployed, Integral Process Leadership is an expansion of organizational leadership architecture, not a training or development approach. Based on powerful neuroscience concepts, IPL aims at total organizational transformation designed for global improvements in human flourishing.
To put it more plainly, IPL means adding a new and very specific type of leader to the mix at the top.
The IPL implementation process involves start to finish guidance in finding, training, onboarding, and supporting Integral Process Leaders.