{"id":425,"date":"2005-11-20T13:30:37","date_gmt":"2005-11-20T11:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/index.php\/archive\/bah-on-the-health-of-todays-organizations\/"},"modified":"2005-11-24T01:40:10","modified_gmt":"2005-11-23T23:40:10","slug":"bah-on-the-health-of-todays-organizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/2005\/11\/bah-on-the-health-of-todays-organizations\/","title":{"rendered":"BAH on the Health of Today\u2019s Organizations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strategy-business.com\/resiliencereport\/resilience\/rr00026?pg=all\">survey<\/a> in Strategy + Business magazine (a publication of consultancy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bah.com\/\">BoozAllenHamilton<\/a>) detects the sources of organizational dysfunction and finds that two thirds of all businesses are &#8216;unhealthy&#8217;, or as I would say they exhibit pathologies (and neuroses) and that these make them basically incapable of responding effectively and flexibly to economic events and changing customers needs and wants.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Most organizations are inherently unhealthy. That hypothesis is inspired by experience, informed by economic theory, and now supported by hard data.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are some regional distinctions in Organizational Health, where Germany rates fairly OK, like the rest of Europe, in stark contrast to Japan or the US.<\/p>\n<p>One thing that struck me is that in unhealthy organizations there is a lack of clear decision rights, besides the other syndromes like passive-aggressive behaviour (well, yes, neuroses galore) and over-(micro-)management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A survey in Strategy + Business magazine (a publication of consultancy BoozAllenHamilton) detects the sources of organizational dysfunction and finds that two thirds of all businesses are &#8216;unhealthy&#8217;, or as I would say they exhibit pathologies (and neuroses) and that these make them basically incapable of responding effectively and flexibly to economic events and changing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[313,517,314,564],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}