Are you ready to drive your business to its next level?
At Organizational Physics, we coach expansion-stage businesses to new heights. We work with you to design a new structure, streamline your strategic execution, drive unparalleled performance gains, and develop a culture that thrives. All this, in a fraction of the time you’re currently spending managing your company.
It’s a unique blend of systems thinking and expert coaching tailored to your needs.
To see if our approach is right for you, visit our tutorials, go deeper with a good book, test drive our unique SWOT analysis, or read our case studies.
For expansion-stage CEOs, we offer our premier Designed to Scale CEO coaching program with guaranteed results.
There’s a lot to do here at Organizational Physics.
Drop me a line if I can be of any assistance.
Cheers,
Lex
The 5 Steps to Designing a New Structure
There are 5 steps to follow when designing and implementing a new organizational structure:
Step 1. Map Key Process Cycles
Step 2. Map Functions
Step 3. Clarify & Adopt Structure
Step 4. Place People
Step 5. Plan & Execute Roll Out
Learn more:
Test Drive PSIU Assessments
Buy the book How to Think About Hiring
Buy the book Designed to Scale
Buy the book Organizational Physics
Listen to Designed to Scale on Audible and iTunes
I’m happy to announce that my new book Designed to Scale is now available on Audible and iTunes.
Before you buy, I’d like you to know that this is a VERY hard book to listen to as audio only. There are core concepts and visual images that require reading and reflection. If you prefer audio books, make sure to download the Audiobook Images PDF that is included with the audiobook to guide your listening. I’ve also been recording short videos on key concepts from the book that you can find links to here.
Cheers,
Lex
Start your new structure by thinking horizontally
When designing a structure, think horizontally instead of vertically. In this video, you will see how to lay out an ideal Customer journey, a Product journey, and an Employee journey as inputs into your new structure.
Buy the Book Designed to Scale.
How to Stack Your Structure with the Best Talent
No structure is perfect. No new hire is perfect. There are always trade offs. Be more conscious of those trade-offs upfront so that you can make the best decisions possible and stack your new structure with the right talent.
Learn more:
Test Drive PSIU Assessments
Buy How to Think About Hiring at:
Buy Designed to Scale
Introduction to the 4-quadrant Structure Map
This is an intro video to the Organizational Physics 4-quadrant Structure Map tool.
Download the Structure Map template.
Buy the book Designed to Scale on Amazon.
The Structure Map is a powerful thinking tool to deploy the 6 Rules of Structure and identify any current structural breakdowns occurring in your business, to design the right new scalable growth structure, and to have easier and more pointed structural conversations with your team.
The Right Structure for Your Business Stage
What is the right organizational structure for the current and emerging lifecycle stage of your core business and any business units? Using the Organizational Physics Strategy Map as a guide, this video shows that:
- A Pilot It stage initiative requires very limited structure.
- A Nail It stage initiative benefits from a functional structure.
- A Scale It stage initiative requires an evolving structure (based on the functions defined in the Nail It stage).
- A Milk It stage structure requires making a break or escape from the legacy structure.
Additional Resources Referenced in this Video:
Buy the book Organizational Physics (best book for understanding lifecycle strategy)
Take the Top-Level OKRs Strategy Survey
Buy the book Designed to Scale
Design Controls Behavior
Design controls behavior. If you want new business behaviors, change the the organizational structure The 6 Rules of Structure provide visibility into key underlying polarities at work within every business. A key idea is to not treat polarities as problems to be solved. Polarities (e.g., short-range vs. long-range, efficiency vs. effectiveness, control vs. autonomy) must be harnessed to create the right amount of tension in the business for sustained strategic execution.
Buy the book Designed to Scale on Amazon.
The 6 Rules of Structure
There are 6 Rules of Structure to follow when designing a scalable business structure. They are:
1. If the strategy or lifecycle stage changes, change the structure.
2. Don’t allow short-range functions to control long-range ones.
3. Don’t allow efficiency functions to control effectiveness ones.
4. Don’t allow centralized control to overpower decentralized autonomy.
5. Put people into roles where they can focus and thrive.
6. Process brings structure alive.
The 3 Building Blocks of Structure
The three design elements of organizational structure are: Functions, Location, and Authority. Use these three building blocks to avoid some common pitfalls and design the right new structure for your business stage and strategy.
Buy the book Designed to Scale: How to Structure Your Business for Exponential Growth.
What is Structure?
Structure is how your business is organized. If you want to get your business to do something new, then at key points in its development, you’ll need to look at and change its structure.
Buy the book Designed to Scale.
Introducing the Top-Level OKRs Strategy Survey
I’ve recently made available a powerful new tool for setting strategy. It’s called the Top-Level OKRs Strategy Survey. It relies on lifecycle theory to help you quickly align a Leadership Team on the right top-level objectives and key results (OKRs).
If you are planning to do a strategy refresh, I highly recommend this approach. I suggest that you launch this tool 3 to 4 weeks prior to your strategic planning offsite and use the data as inputs for setting the right strategy. You can find out everything you need to know here.
Take the tool for a free 30-day test drive and let me know how it is working out for you. I guarantee it will help you set the right next-stage strategy, one based on the actual lifecycle stage of each business unit. It will also create improved strategic clarity, alignment, and buy-in across your entire company.
To your success,
Lex