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TWOStories of Organizing

Question to a consultant:

“So—are you helping them get organized?”

“No—I am helping them get disorganized.”

Organizing Like a Cow

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Courtesy of Socket Software

This bedtime story may seem to be over the moon. It is not!

To pick up on an ad that appeared some years ago for a major software company, the drawing above is not a cow. It’s a chart of a cow—its parts. In a healthy cow, these parts don’t even know that they are parts; they just work together harmoniously. So, would you like your organization to work like a chart? ...

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