"The 12 Key Elements of a Leading Edge Organisation."

Today's organisation, is an inherently underperforming organisation. Underperformance is not the same a poor performing. Underperforming is about producing results below potential, while poor performing is producing bad or poor results because the individual or organisation lacks the capacity to produce better results. All organisations have the potential to produce better results in what they do. The same with all economies. Organisations and economies are staffed with people with a lot of potential, but this potential is either unrecognised, underutilised. Yes, many leaders and managers talk about this potential, but few do real work to explore, to discover, to unlock and fully utilise this potential. They use the words like potential and greatness in a motivational sense, but not in a strategic sense, thus they do not get the best out of the potential and the greatness of their staff.

By now, I am sure you must have come across some literature around human potential.

By now I am sure you have heard about the Gallup Organisation and its work on employee engagement and organisational performance especially that idea they promote that as much as seventy percent of employees are not fully engaged in their work around the world. This is a clear indicator of untapped human potential. Everywhere in the world economies are failing not for any other serious cause than underutilisation of human potential within and accross those economies.

Now traditional organisational design is a major contributor to the underperforming organisation. Even many profit making organisations are underperforming.

The current model organisation is old-fashioned! It must be replace with a better model that delivers better performance and better results while allowing better self expression by staff or employees. So we are talking about replacing an old-fashioned organisation with a leading edge organisation. The benefits of this replacement are ground breaking and have a huge impact on sustainability, on performance and on transforming our world.

The following are the key elements of the leading edge organisation.

1. Leading edge organisational design

2. Leading edge organisational modelling

3. Leading edge recruitment

4. Leading edge induction

5. Leading edge strategy theory

6. Leading edge leadership theory and practice

7. Leading edge performance management

8. Leading edge strategic thinking

9. Leading edge training, education and development

10. Leading edge job descriptions

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