Concept

Field

One of the six perspectives of the Compass, as it appears as an area on the canvas.

The Transformation Discovery Compass looks at an organization from six perspectives. On the canvas they are called fields: the WHY in the centre, surrounded by Dynamic-Robust Organization, High-Impact Teams, Systemic Leadership, Adaptive Innovation and Responsive Strategy.

The weakest field is rarely the lever

A maturity model shows which field is weakest and suggests starting there. In the Compass, a field is rarely weak on its own. Often it only shows what is decided elsewhere. The most important observations therefore often lie on the tension axis between two fields. The lever is the decision that changes the mechanism behind it, and it is often made in a different field from where the symptom shows.

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Related Concepts

The working surface of the Compass: the WHY in the centre, the five other fields around it. Available as an A3 template.

The line between two fields of the Compass on which a pattern becomes visible. It shows where to look, not yet the lever.

Transformation Discovery Compass

An instrument with six perspectives on the same situation. Helps find the mechanism behind a blockage and the decision that changes it.

Blocking Pattern

A recurring interplay of symptom, tension axis and mechanism that blocks a decision. The book describes twelve of them.

The One Decision

The binding commitment that now opens the most room for the next decisions, made despite uncertainty, with a review date.

Insights

12 Muster, die Transformation blockieren, und wie man sie erkennt

Transformationen scheitern selten an fehlender Strategie. Sie scheitern an wiederkehrenden organisationalen Mustern, die unsichtbar wirken.

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