INSIGHTS
Insights on Leadership and Organisation Design
Arguments from practice. Published as they are worth publishing.
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This is where the longer arguments live. Each piece takes one pattern that recurs across engagements and works it properly: what is actually happening, why it persists, and what would need to change.
The first pieces are in preparation. If you would like to be told when they appear, write to writeto@polipconsulting.com and say so.
In preparation
CULTURE & ENGAGEMENT
Why your engagement survey produces the same three findings every year
The instrument measures sentiment accurately. The action plan is then attached to the reading rather than to the decisions and management practice producing it.
TALENT
What the first ninety days after promotion do to a high performer
Nobody made a hiring mistake. The role changed underneath them, and the preparation they were given addressed a different job.
ORGANISATION DESIGN
The restructure that moved every box and changed nothing
Reporting lines are easy to see and easy to move. Decision rights, work flow and forum authority are neither, so they tend to be inherited intact.
LEADERSHIP
High satisfaction scores, no behaviour change at ninety days
The most reliably reproduced result in corporate leadership development, and what it says about the conditions a workshop cannot reach.
Begin with the problem, not the service.
Bring the symptom. The scoping conversation exists to locate where the problem actually lives, and whether POLIP is the right practice to take it on.