HEPO — People & Culture and Process Orchestration

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The star performer the instrument couldn't save

Was the team rewarding a working pattern it could not sustain? An illustrative case reading of evidence, interpretation and a practical response.

Why we chose the word trait

Convention sets a standard. Customs describe how people actually meet it. Habits carry repeated behaviour into everyday work. HEPO needed a practical unit for …

The meeting I left with

A lost deal can leave an organisation with several plausible explanations: an awkward handoff, a new colleague without enough support, a customer concern raise…

From resource to capability

The Culture Capability Atlas asks how an organisation creates the conditions in which people can contribute.

The quest for authority

A code of conduct can say what an organisation expects without showing how those expectations survive a difficult decision.

Ten virtues, fully assembled

Virtue in the Enterprise develops ten core virtue blueprints and a vocabulary for describing them consistently.

The three axes

Betrayal, oppression and disrespect are the three interpretive axes proposed in Decay in the Enterprise and How to Contain It.

The map and the landscape

An organisation chart, budget or scorecard is a useful map.

The cost of joylessness

Targets can be met while work remains a place where people feel unsupported or unable to contribute.

Campaigns, not slogans

Achievement Campaign asks how an intended value becomes a repeated practice.

The charter that governs itself

A collaboration charter describes how people will work together when agreement is easy and when it is not.

The ten pillars

Platform Functionality organises an earlier account of HEPO into ten functional pillars.

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