Steve Barth | Reflexions

Triggering Immune Response

For a lot of reasons, it's worth learning how the immune system works--from staying healthy to managing organizational change. I came across a very interesting fact about how just a "scent" of a feared threat is enough to trigger an immune response, even if the threat itself isn't present.

Cultural Cohesion & Organizational Adaptability

Organizational theorists often say cultural change and effective collaboration require an alignment of individual and organizational agendas. I usually say that too. But I could be wrong.

How much alignment you can really expect depends on how you define alignment. If you’re looking for lockstep behavior and rote recitation of the company mission statement, well forget it. If by some miracle of coercion or Kool-Aid you able to approximate this, it would be at the complete expense of diversity. So the first disruptive technology or business model to come along would wipe you out.