Our Thinking and Experience
TRANSILIENCE PARTNERS ยท PERSPECTIVE
Why Change Reverts
by Doug Girvin, Transilience Partners
Structure without trust is bureaucracy. Trust without structure is drift. The case for designing for b...
TRANSILIENCE PARTNERS ยท PERSPECTIVE
When "Everyone Owns It" Backfires
by Doug Girvin, Transilience Partners
Why "business development is everyone's job" often makes your team more anxious โ not m...
THE EFFECTIVENESS DOCTRINE ยท ON AI
What forty years of technology waves taught me about AI, and why the part that decides the outcome is the part nobody can buy.
By Doug Girvin ยท Transilience Pa...
Over the past 20 years, much time has been spent trying to reimagine the oft-dreaded Annual Performance Review and its leadership cousin, the 360 Performance Review.ย While much ink and debate have be...
THE EFFECTIVENESS DOCTRINE ยท NO. 1
Thirty years of transformation consulting has perfected the art of making organizations more efficient. We think the entire industry has been optimizing the wrong...
A TRANSILIENT LEADERSHIP IDEA
The work that matters most runs between the boxes on your org chart โ and it usually has no real owner. The common fix, declaring that "everyone owns it," makes things
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THE EFFECTIVENESS DOCTRINE ยท NO. 2
The first efficiency program pays for itself. The third one quietly costs you the capacity to adapt.
By Doug Girvin ยท Transilience Partners
Every efficiency p...
THE EFFECTIVENESS DOCTRINE ยท NO. 3
"Culture eats strategy" is half a truth. The full truth: culture is the only system that lets strategy change its mind in time.
By Ashley Chase, with Doug Girv...
THE EFFECTIVENESS DOCTRINE ยท NO. 4
What gets measured gets managed. That's exactly the problem.
By Doug Girvin ยท Transilience Partners
"What gets measured gets managed" is one of those phrases ...
THE EFFECTIVENESS DOCTRINE ยท NO. 5
The template is efficient. For the firm selling it. That, in a sentence, is the whole problem.
By Doug Girvin & Ashley Chase ยท Transilience Partners
Somewhere...
THE EFFECTIVENESS DOCTRINE ยท NO. 6
Effectiveness isn't one good decision. It's strategy, structure, systems, and culture pointed the same way โ and staying pointed as the direction changes.
By D...
THE EFFECTIVENESS DOCTRINE ยท NO. 9
If efficiency is a servant and effectiveness is the work, what does a leader who has stopped worshipping the first actually do on Monday morning?
By Doug Girvi...
