Smarter Together
Growing Organizations for Velocity, Meaning and Agility
2015 Jack Ricchiuto
DesigningLife Books, Paperback, 140 pages
What if work was designed for optimum velocity, meaning and agility? What if we could grow organizations from a thriving culture of integrity, initiative and inclusion?
In Smarter Together, 18-time author Jack Ricchiuto draws from research, science and practice to outline how we can immediately and sustainably move from stressed command and control to smart entrepreneurial organizations where we are smarter together.
"Growing smart organizations is our deepest global social and economic opportunity."
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Content
9 Invitation
11 Context
13 The smart imperative
17 Smarter together
21 Smarter conversations
40 The 3 principles of smarter conversations
45 The smart organization
49 Entrepreneurship
51 Business not as usual
52 Empathy
55 The entrepreneurial organization
56 Entrepreneurial ROI
58 Entrepreneurial risks
61 Smart Structures
63 Market teams
66 Project teams
68 Lead pairs
69 Circles & communities
73 Networks
77 Smart Tools
79 Transparency tools
82 Smart meetings
86 Work agreements
90 Talent and market mapping
95 Smart systems
97 Smart Culture
99 Social agreements
102 Engagement
103 Growing ideas
109 Happiness habits
112 The primacy of learning
115 Transition
117 The transition team
118 Leadership
119 Planning
121 Reviews and compensation
127 Resource networks
129 The Transition Checklist
131 The Promise of Smart Organizations
135 About the Author
Invitation
Smarter Together is about how the core difference between smart and stressed organizations is the quality of the conversations that shape everything that happens in them.
People in smart organizations work from the narrative that we are smarter together. People in stressed organizations work from the narrative that one of us can and needs to be smarter than all of us. These narratives shape the character of their conversations. Conversation is destiny.
The book outlines how smart organizations are designed for velocity, meaning and agility. Everyone becomes more entrepreneurial because they listen to their markets more deeply and engage talent more rigorously. Growing smarter organizations is vital to raising the quality of life for everyone on the planet.