Michael Lurie - agile organization architect, coach, catalyst

Why is this happening? The five systemic drivers of your organization’s performance

Chasing daunting financial and operating goals, many leaders are struggling to understand why their organizations are performing as they...

Symptoms vs. root causes: a story of organizational performance, design and leadership

One of the pervasive issues in business is the common tendency for leaders and teams to address some of the presenting symptoms of an...

"Five disciplines of agile organizations" voted top idea in McKinsey Agility Hackathon

Excited to share that my submission on "the five disciplines of agile organizations" was voted last week as one of the top ideas in...

An agile way to think about markets

Industrial economy command organizations operated in protected markets. They approached these markets with a core discipline of...

Lean Strategy

Insightful article by David Collis in the latest issue of HBR. Building on his thesis, it might be useful to recognize that both top-down...

McKinsey's Agility Hackathon

Signed up for McKinsey's Agility Hackathon, a cool crowd-sourced initiative to have 1,000 people around the world co-create ideas for the...

A New Era Is Needed for Leadership Development

Howard Prager shares some insightful comments in three blog posts on ATD about new approaches to leadership development. Key elements...

Getting beyond the BS of leadership literature

Jeffrey Pfeffer offers a thoughtful take on the real skills senior leaders need to be successful in today's environment - and the reading...

Rita Gunther McGrath's insights on high-performing organizations

While the research was done a few years ago, the lessons in McGrath's How The Growth Outliers Do It remain compelling - organizations...

Reinventing Organizations

Business leaders who aspire to build the great organizations of the next few decades should pay close attention to Frederic Laloux's...

Your invitation to co-creation

Welcome! Join over 1,800 leaders and practitioners in co-creating a 21st century approach to leading organizations. Our vehicle is this blog, which will ultimately become a book.

This blog’s integrating framework is the five disciplines of agile organizations, a simple and powerful model developed through extensive research and dozens of strategy, organization and leadership development engagements over the past ten years.

By joining our co-creation community, this framework and blog becomes available to you under a Creative Commons license (see below), which means you can freely use it in your work, so long as you do so with attribution, and you contribute your insights and experiences in return.

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