Lessons tagged “schema-design”
3 published lessons with this tag.
Schema construction is the core skill of this curriculum
Everything that follows builds on your ability to create inspect and improve schemas.
Schema design as leadership work
One of the most important jobs of leadership is designing and updating organizational schemas — the shared mental models through which the organization perceives, interprets, and acts. Leaders who focus only on decisions and actions are managing the organization's output. Leaders who design schemas are managing the organization's cognitive infrastructure — the system that produces decisions and actions at every level, in every situation, whether the leader is present or not.
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.