Lessons tagged “organizational-behavior”
4 published lessons with this tag.
Organizational context shapes individual behavior
The structures and incentives of an organization determine individual action more than personality does.
Choice architecture for teams
The same principles that work for personal choice architecture work for teams.
Organizations run on shared schemas
Every organization operates through shared mental models — collective schemas that determine what the organization perceives, how it interprets information, and what actions it considers possible. These schemas are not written in the org chart or the strategy deck. They live in the heads of the people, and they run the organization more reliably than any policy document.
Healthy organizational schemas produce healthy organizational behavior
Get the shared mental models right and behavior follows naturally. Organizations do not need to control behavior through rules, surveillance, or micromanagement when the shared schemas — the collective mental models of what matters, how the world works, and what good looks like — are accurate, current, and well-aligned. Healthy schemas produce healthy behavior as an emergent property, just as healthy individual cognition produces wise action without deliberate effort for each decision.