The Smart Organization

Is your organization maturing as fast as it's aging? The key to organizational maturity and, in turn, long-term success, is the systems approach to management, as opposed to the functional or departmental approach. Why? Because the systems approach - when all the organizational parts are aligned, linked, and working interdependently in pursuit of common goals - maximizes the firm's ability to adapt to change imposed upon the business by external forces outside our control.

Mature organizations are interdependent wholes; immature organizations are dysfunctional heaps. In this context, effective leadership is defined as building "smart" organizations that continue to grow and develop as business systems to assure long-term success.