Articles
I have been maintaining a blog in Turkish since 2000. Recently, I have started to write on some topics in English. This page includes only these posts. You can check “Makaleler” page for the blog posts in Turkish.
Team Coaching Framework: Collective Understanding
This article aims to explain the details of the second phase of the team coaching framework explained in this article. Change Themes / Aspirations All coaching interventions start with a need for change, which later develops into an aspiration. In most cases, change...
Team Coaching Framework: Preparation
This article aims to explain the details of the first phase of the team coaching framework explained in this article. Initial Contact Team coaches are often called in by a team leader or someone commissioning the work (the sponsor). This initial contact is the first...
Team Coaching: A Framework
Despite efforts of many scholars and practitioners (such as Peter Hawkins, David Clutterbuck, Christine Thornton, Ruth Wageman, Marita Fridjhon, Anne Rod, Jennifer Britton) and organizations (such as EMCC), team coaching is still in its early stages of maturity. There...
An Alternative Ambidextrous / Agile Organization and Governance Model
In this article, I would like to explain my experiment with an ambidextrous organization and governance model, which has the ambition to embody two souls of exploration and exploitation in the same body even in the most reliability-driven organizations. Before...
Organizational Structure to Enable Agility
Organizations need to be agile in delivering both incremental and radical innovations. Incremental innovation projects are easier to manage within the usual functional and bureaucratic structures. However radical innovation endeavors may require a different setup due...
The Principles of Organizational Ambidexterity / Agility (OA)
(Check previous articles: What is Organizational Ambidexterity? What is Organizational Agility?) Software development world translated agile purpose into 4 values, 12 principles and various practices. Initially, software world’s understanding of agility was mainly at...
What is Organizational Ambidexterity?
Most of the sources about organizational ambidexterity start explaining the concept by providing statistics about the life span of companies. They mention how Fortune 500 list evolved over time, provide examples of once-upon-a-time successful companies (such as Kodak,...
What is Organizational Agility?
We hear a lot about agility nowadays. Agile methods have become infamous all around after their successful utilization in software development area. Actually, it is possible to see earlier and fairly extensive utilizations of agile methods at the mids of 1900s in...
Team Coaching: What It is and What It is not?
What is Team Coaching? There are many definitions of coaching around, and each present a different perspective. The common characteristics of these definitions are that coaching is a formal relationship that concerns: developing insight (awareness)setting up specific...
What is the Problem of the Current Modern Organizations?
All of the modern business organizations of today share a common template, in other words a common operating system. Wherever you go in the world, whichever organization you see, you will come across with similar practices of management and organizing. This operating...
What does an Effective Team Look Like?
Along the history, we have always lived in groups and have continuously invented new ways of working together within and along groups. In this way, we achieved extraordinary advances. None of these advances could have been possible without our capabilities to work...
The Organizational DNA
This article is an extension of "10 Conceptual Frameworks of Organization Every Leader Should Know" and aims to provide more detail about the conceptual framework of "Organizational DNA". This model is developed by a group of consultants in Booz & Company in the...