Organizational Psychological Powers​: Those Powers Needed to Thrive in the 21st Century​

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1. Organizational Psychological Powers Those Powers Needed to Thrive in the 21st Century
3. PRISM Prospection (P): Foresight, the ability to imagine possible futures and the meta-skill positioning us ahead of change. Resilience and cognitive agility (R): The bedrock of thriving through change. Creativity and innovation (I): Our uniquely human gift, restored to workplace prominence today after its assembly-line decline. Rapid rapport to build social support (S): Building trust to bridge differences and achieve the connection we need to flourish. Meaning and mattering (M): The motivation to propel us forward.
4. The Key Challenge for Designing and Operating Hierarchies Today and Tomorrow is BALANCE Empowerment and Autonomy helping companies mobilize employees’ creativity and exploit their unique knowledge and capabilities. Exercising Managerial Authority on a Large Scale environments characterized by rapid change and interdependent activities Balancing two opposing forces
5. Companies need clear, fairly enforced policies and procedures that achieve coordination and cooperation while respecting employee desires for empowerment and relative autonomy. Managers have to figure out when to intervene and when to let employees handle problems themselves. How are these employees incentivized and evaluated? How do executives make sure that all these decentralized decisions mesh together?
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