349 ENCORE Alex Osterwalder: Finding The Beauty In Your Company's Organizational Chart

11/28/23 • 51 min

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Disrupt Yourself Podcast with Whitney Johnson

Growing your people to grow your organization – it makes sense, right? But what about approaching the problem from the other direction – growing your organization, to grow your people?

When’s the last time you looked at the state of your org chart? And how willing are you to experiment with it?

Today, I want to bring back an old episode. In 2020, we spoke with Alex Osterwalder about his idea of an invincible company – one that is constantly reinventing itself to stay on the bleeding edge of disruption.

Alex, along with his mentor Yves Pigneur, is one of the top-ranked management thinkers in the world – as of Thinkers50 2023, which just wrapped up, the duo is number 8 on that list.

I hope you enjoy.

Growing your people to grow your organization – it makes sense, right? But what about approaching the problem from the other direction – growing your organization, to grow your people?

When’s the last time you looked at the state of your org chart? And how willing are you to experiment with it?

Alex, along with his mentor Yves Pigneur, is one of the top-ranked management thinkers in the world – as of Thinkers50 2023, which just wrapped up, the duo is number 8 on that list.

I hope you enjoy.

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Coaching often involves speaking a truth the other person doesn’t really want to hear. Even when we’re lost for direction, being pointed in the right way can feel like this indictment on being lost in the first place.

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