LeadershipNow's Leading Thoughts (Michael McKinney) features Eric on the incoherent organization

Michael McKinney founded LeadershipNow and writes its Leading Thoughts, a Thursday post pairing two quotations. The 16 July edition opened with a passage from Incorruptible on the incoherent organization, alongside Walter Lippmann on democracy.

“An incoherent organization is one where what gets rewarded contradicts what gets proclaimed. Where the values on the wall are betrayed by daily reality. Some such companies claim they value innovation but ostracize those whose experiments fail. Others promise work-life balance while ensuring only workaholics are invited to strategy meetings. Still others swear they put customers first but praise employees who engage in deceptive sales practices. Departments clash due to opposing cultures-product aspires to be Apple, but finance aspires to be Goldman Sachs. The result is a company at war with itself. And like a human body suffering from an autoimmune disease, it becomes increasingly weak and vulnerable.” — Eric Ries, Incorruptible (via LeadershipNow)