A Practical, Step-by-Step Guide to Wiring a Winning Organization from the Middle

The larger and more complex an organization is, the more impediments exist to human creativity, productivity, and collaboration, and the longer it takes for organizations to find and address disruptions in the system and continuously improve processes to stay competitive.

This paper provides a practical, step-by-step guide for leaders, especially those who find themselves leading from the middle of an organization, on how to build the social wiring and desired behaviors of a winning organization as described by Gene Kim and Steven Spear in the book Wiring the Winning Organization . The steps presented are intended to help leaders create inertia to systemically spread an accelerated organizational learning dynamic with an empowering, human-centered approach, prioritizing the well-being, productivity, and interconnectivity of people while creating value and competitive advantage.

This paper provides a simple and proven approach to help leaders put into practice the concepts of slowification, amplification, and simplification. The approach centers around developing the capabilities of people and organizations to (1) see problems in real-time, (2) swarm and solve problems to gain new knowledge, and (3) spread the learnings systemically across the organization.