PERFECT BIZ MATCH is a road map to help managers navigate in today's complex and challenging business environment and steer their organizations on a path to success.
There are four Organizational Archetypes: Pioneers, Hunters, Warriors, and Rulers. Each organizational archetype should be designed and run according to the needs and demands of the particular type of market it serves.
In nature, successful organisms - whether they're sharks, orchids, or impalas - are designed to survive and thrive in their particular environments. Paradoxically, however, the same characteristics that make a creature so successful in its natural environment also restrict its ability to survive elsewhere. A shark can't live even an hour on dry land; an orchid won't survive a single winter in Tennessee.
The same principles hold true for businesses and markets. There needs to be a fit between the dynamics of an organization and the market environment in which it operates. Indeed, this fit is crucial to the company's survival. Read More
Archetypes are ways of describing the world, not limiting it. The four organizational archetypes presented here are not clear-cut categories into which all businesses neatly fit at all times. While many organizations are classic pioneers, or hunters, or rulers, others are better described as hybrids of two different archetypes. Still others closely fit one archetype in many ways, yet have a handful of elements of one or more of the others. The point here is not to put companies into pre-fabricated boxes and then provide black and white "solutions" for any organization that's been dumped into that box. In fact, my purpose is quite the opposite: to provide you with a useful framework for examining your own organization and its market environment, so that you can devise your own unique answers based on the skills and information you'll acquire from Perfect Biz Match. Read More
The organizational pattern in each archetype is largely determined by
two factors: its natural and appropriate organizational structure, and
the nature of professional relationships among its leaders and
employees. Read More
Each archetype requires a particular type of culture, which supports
the organization and enables it to thrive (or at least survive and
compete) in its market. Read More
Traditionally, people who write and talk about leadership have
attempted to identify a set of qualities that typify effective
leaders. By now I hope it has become clear that no one style of
leadership can possibly be effective in all four organizational
archetypes. Each archetype needs - in fact, demands - its own
particular style of leadership. Read More
There is yet another crucial aspect to matching leadership styles,
organizational archetypes, and market environments: each archetype has
its own ideal type of leadership structure. Read More
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