Book Review
The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business
Raheela Al Karim
A&S 801 Leadership: Theory and Practice
DePaul University
Date: 10/21/15 The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business
In The Advantage, Lencioni explains how leaders can nurture the healthy organization. This book is based on the combination of organizational effectiveness, teamwork, leadership, and organizational alignment. He believes that the combinations of all will be the advantage for an organization. Lencioni believes that when you create a culture or an organization that is stronger then your competitors, or when you create an uncomplicated company where clarity, focus and teamwork exist it creates a successful healthy organization.
Patrick Lencioni arguing that the most ideally organizations are not those that are inherently smarter than others with respect to financial management, human resources, strategy, technology and marketing. Instead, he asserts that the best organization entities are those deemed to be healthy. Healthy organizations are more disciplined and have cohesive team, which helps avoid politics and confusion. As a result, employee morale, as well as productivity, is highly escalated while significantly minimizing turnover. Such entities, as explained by the author, are depicted to have a distinct and dynamic competitive advantage within the market segments that they operate.
As Lencioni explains,
From the perspective of this author, both types of organizations have a critical need for the right manager that focus on the right areas. Therefore, both would have to pay close attention to their stakeholders and their motivators regardless of organization type. Case in point,
According to the article, seven practices make the organization successful. Firstly, Employees security is very important. If they feel so stressful about losing their jobs then they can’t focus more on their work. So employees security plays a crucial role in success of organization. Secondly, important practice is selective hiring. Companies need to have large pool of applicant to select the best. They should have clear idea about the required qualities for the position. Moreover, Skills and abilities sought to be carefully considered rather than their academic skills and they should focus on the attitude of the applicant as it cannot be changed by training or any other force. Southwest example in the article proved how important this hiring process was. Self-managed teams and decentralization as basic elements of organizational design should be practiced. An organization to be successful should have efficient teams. Everyone in team should feel the responsibility to develop the firm. Authors Jeffrey and Veiga explained this using VANCOM example. Comparatively High Compensation Contingent on Organizational Performance is also one such good practice. High compensation should be a progenitor, not a consequence of organization performance.
* What organizational structure, management processes, and philosophy will foster superior performance from the company’s business units?
In healthcare organization, it is necessary to hold a proper link between the culture and structure in relation to the successful execution of the organization's strategies.
the promotion of products and services. Comparatively, the MGMA centers the work of others in
According to the author of “Built to Last”, Good to Great outlines a representation for rotating a high-quality, regular or even ordinary corporation into a grand one. The book includes a helpful illustration that brings all the presumption collectively in a significant and unforgettable manner. By bringing mutually disciplined individuals, using restricted thought and action companies can makeup and penetrate the barrier that seize them from getting to greatness. The author, Jim Collins and his explore team put together collectively a roll of “good to great” organizations and compared them to the “contrast companies” in order to verify what distinguish the leaders from the rest.
"Stability is a momentary respite in the endless movement and creativity of essential change. Although occasional stability is necessary, stability over time is the enemy of creativity and movement" (Porter-O'grady & Malloch, pg. 114, 2016). There are a few ways that one of our organizational leaders keeps chaos in the organization. While I am not sure that any one individual has to try to keep chaos in the healthcare institution because of the changes that are coming down the pipe with healthcare reform. This individual is our chief operating officer, she has keep chaos in our organization fairly consistently since taking this position. In 2014 our clinic merged with a larger healthcare system and later that year we changed to EPIC our operating
A successful and societally beneficial healthcare organization must have a leader who has a sense of right and wrong, exhibits restraint, dispenses wisdom, and is a visionary that guides the organization to reach its maximum potential. The role of a successful leader is dependent upon employees that embrace the organization’s culture, mission, and direction. An effective leader rallies employee support and allegiance to the organization’s cause. An influential leader can elicit employee positivity and dedication, and has the ability to engage employees in achieving goals set forth by the organization and leadership.
Everyone makes mistakes in life; it’s just part of life. People face many obstacles, and sometimes a decision is made that will forever haunt a person. Adultery, an action considered a sin, affects the lives of two characters. Hester Prynne of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, and John Proctor of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible similarly demonstrate their development of living with the accusations and hardships of adultery.
A positive organizational approach is really a matter of being able to integrate the competing demands that make up an organization” (Pace, 2010).
From the point of view of the external environment, the effectiveness of organization would gain much more support when the company do the business with their consumers and suppliers, due to the company has provided a wonderful environment for the employees (Businessweek, 2007). Obviously, when the company’s reputations has been known and improved because
When trying to maintain a healthy organizational culture the leader has many factors that he/she must balance. Maintaining a healthy organizational culture may be viewed as an entire strategic
Griffis Blessing is going to be the heart of operations for all of the apartment complexes that they manage. Griffis Blessing has been around for 50th years. A company has to be successful in order to last this long. Some of those components for lasting 50 years are going to be vision, goals, mission, and strategies. Organization’s mission, vision, goals, and strategies are what made Griffis Blessing a very successful company. Griffis Blessing started out with one individual managing property; however, Griffis Blessing currently has 2,000 individuals working for them and has about 50 apartment complexes to manage. Keeping all of these individuals on the same task it going to require great teamwork. The author Chen (2002) stated for the structural model, the results showed that the cognitive teamwork skills had a direct effect on performance appraisal and had indirect effects on salary and bonus through its influence on performance
Organizational structure has been set up to facilitate all goal achievements. It is a way to motivate their employees and get them to work together. It also helps its employees to follow the organizations goals, and work together as a team. In order to do this, they need to have an organized structure to be able to run the company smoothly. A main foundation of every organization is to post their mission statement and goals everywhere so that their employees can see them. An organizational culture can consist of common shared beliefs and values that are established by the organization’s leader, and then communicated and reinforce through various methods, this helps shape employee perceptions, behaviors and understanding. Overall, organizational structure and culture can effect progress of many organizations in a positive and negative way.
There was a coordination and collaboration among all departments in the organization that resulted in faster accomplishment of tasks. Also, the goals of the organization were clear for the employees and they were always stressed by their managers.