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Lattice Ways to Participate: Creating a Company Culture of Collaboration and Transparency
Benko, Cathleen; Anderson, MollyBook Chapter HBS-7012BC-EThe traditional corporate ladder is giving way to a new kind of organizational structure-the corporate lattice-in which success is no longer defined as a linear climb to the top, and rigid definitions of what work is, how it should be accomplished, and who gets to participate are being transformed. In this chapter, the authors examine how companies can enable broad-based, nonhierarchical forms of participation through the interrelated forces of c...Starting at €8.20
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Lattice Ways to Build Careers: An Operational Approach to Career Customization
Benko, Cathleen; Anderson, MollyBook Chapter HBS-7018BC-EThe changing world of work is dismantling the corporate ladder step by step. Tom Peters, the best-selling author of "In Search of Excellence," sums it up this way: "It's over. No more vertical. No more ladder. A career is now a checkerboard. Or even a maze." In this chapter, the authors explore how companies can redesign their talent practices through career enhancement and customization. They introduce the mass career customization (MCC) tool, w...Starting at €8.20
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The Individual's Guide to the Shifting Landscape: Charting Your Career Path Within the Corporate Lattice Structure
Benko, Cathleen; Anderson, MollyBook Chapter HBS-7019BC-EThe traditional corporate ladder is giving way to a new kind of organizational structure-the corporate lattice-in which success is no longer defined as a linear climb to the top, and rigid definitions of what work is, how it should be accomplished, and who gets to participate are being transformed. In this chapter, the authors explore the changing role each individual plays in directing his or her own lattice journey. Individuals need to treat th...Starting at €8.20
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From Ladder to Lattice: The New Workforce Imperative
Benko, Cathleen; Weisberg, AnneBook Chapter HBS-3881BC-ELeadership and People ManagementScaling the corporate ladder has been the enduring gold standard for personal success since organizational hierarchy was invented at the beginning of the industrial age. However, a confluence of market and demographic forces in the past twenty years has compressed hierarchies, shortened the ladder, and reduced the qualified pool of high-potential employees available to climb it. Another set of business and societal influences has reshaped the Ame...Starting at €8.20
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The Nontraditional Is the New Traditional: Six Trends that have Created a New Workforce Imperative
Benko, Cathleen; Weisberg, AnneBook Chapter HBS-3882BC-ELeadership and People ManagementWhy is here and now the time to acknowledge and respond to the notion that corporate structures are morphing from a ladder to a lattice construct? One reason is that six key trends are converging in ways that create an unprecedented workforce challenge for business executives. This convergence is creating sweeping changes in workforce composition, attitudes, and capabilities. This chapter dissects the six trends and illustrates how each is exacer...Starting at €8.20
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The Changing World of Work: The Corporate Lattice as a Response to Demographic and Economic Shifts
Benko, Cathleen; Anderson, MollyBook Chapter HBS-7009BC-EThe traditional corporate ladder is giving way to a new kind of organizational structure-the corporate lattice-in which success is no longer defined as a linear climb to the top. In this chapter, the authors explain how a perfect storm of demographic and economic forces has redefined the workplace, the workforce, and the nature of work itself. The need for companies to provide more and better ways to engage a diverse employee population is taking...Starting at €8.20
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Lattice Ways to Work: How Companies Can Reconfigure When, Where, and How Work Happens
Benko, Cathleen; Anderson, MollyBook Chapter HBS-7011BC-EThe traditional corporate ladder is giving way to a new kind of organizational structure-the corporate lattice-in which success is no longer defined as a linear climb to the top. Today people are working in many more varied ways than they did even 20 years ago. Telecommuting, modular job and process designs, global teams working around the clock, matrix-driven organizational models, and expanded options for customizing work are fast becoming the ...Starting at €8.20
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The Journey Toward a Lattice Organization: Implementing the Principles of Mass Career Customization
Benko, Cathleen; Weisberg, AnneBook Chapter HBS-3885BC-ELeadership and People ManagementMass career customization (MCC) is a natural evolution from the traditional corporate-ladder path, with its one-size-fits-all approach, and the one-off flexible work arrangement approach of accommodation through point solutions, to a more pragmatic, adaptive lattice model. MCC is a framework that helps enterprises promote multidimensional, customized career experiences. The payback is a more actively engaged and loyal workforce. This chapter exam...Starting at €8.20
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Living in a Lattice World: The Challenges of Evolving the Workplace to Match the Changing Workforce
Benko, Cathleen; Weisberg, AnneBook Chapter HBS-3887BC-ELeadership and People ManagementChanges in the demographics of the workforce, the shift toward a knowledge-driven economy, the structure of family life, the evolution of enabling technology, and the nature of work itself are challenging the firmly rooted corporate-ladder model of career progression. A new latticelike model is emerging in its place, opening alternative paths for high-performing, high-potential employees to not only contribute to achieving strategic priorities in...Starting at €8.20
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The Corporate Lattice: The Three Lattice Ways-to Build Careers, to Work, and to Participate
Benko, Cathleen; Anderson, MollyBook Chapter HBS-7008BC-EThe world of work is changing: The hierarchical corporate ladder is giving way to a multidimensional corporate lattice. Rooted in the Industrial Age, the corporate ladder depends on a rigid worldview in which prestige, rewards, information access, and power are tied to the rung an employee occupies, and success is defined as a linear climb to the top. But seismic shifts in demographics and the world economy are redefining the workplace, the workf...Starting at €8.20