PERSON WHO CHANGE,AGILITY & IS A COMPLEX THINKER

1. Richard Tanner Pascale:
Change, Agility and
Complexity Thinker
“Continuous renewal in organization”
By
Akshit Jain
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2. Life and career
 Born in 1938, Pascale received his MBA from Harvard Business School
and was a Baker Scholar. In the late 1970s, while he was a consultant
at McKinsey, he was heavily involved in the evolution of the 7-S model
developed by Peters and Waterman.
 Pascale has acted as an advisor to the White House and as a consultant
to many Fortune 500 companies from AT&T to Shell. During 2005, he
was advisor to the US Ambassador in Iraq and was in control of the
transition of the new ambassador into his post and the management of
the largest US mission in the world.
 Pascale spends a number of days every year focusing on questioning,
and learning from discussions with business leaders..

3. Japanese management and the 7 S Theory
A spirit of enquiry brought Pascale and Athos into contact with Peters and
Waterman in the late 1970s, when Waterman was driving a McKinsey initiative
to seek out new models of corporate success. Peters and Waterman went on
to cite American examples of success in their 1981 bestseller, while Pascale
and Athos looked at lessons from Japan and how they were being applied in
corporate America. 7S Comprises of

4. Organisational agility and the Honda effect
Pascale's five conclusions
 1. Organisational agility is increasingly important as a source of renewable
competitive advantage.
 2. Agility resides in what an organisation is rather than what it does.
 3. The interaction of four key dimensions makes an
organisation (Power,Identity,Contention & Learning)
 4. Strategic intent and agility depend upon the norms, values and behaviours
inculcated within the social system of the organization
 5. Agility depends on certain organisational disciplines, such as continuing
dissatisfaction with the status quo; managing back from the future;
uncompromising straight talk and the bringing of differences out into the open;
and harnessing adversity by learning from setbacks and adapting to move forward.