by Kristen Ireland | Aug 5, 2025 | Leadership
“I’m not exactly sure what I’m supposed to do now. If I get into some of the day-to-day tasks, I’ll get in my team’s way and create a bottleneck.” A client shared this concern on a call a few weeks ago. During our partnership over the last eight months, this...
by Kristen Ireland | Jul 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
You know by now that we love using Jay R. Galbraith’s Star Model ™ as a simple, practical framework to help our clients keep their businesses aligned and humming across key areas: strategy, structure, process, and rewards (click the links to read our posts about these...
by Kristen Ireland | Jun 5, 2025 | Company Culture, Hire and Keep the Right People, Productivity & Growth
If you’ve been following along with this five-part blog series, you know that in successful companies, all business functions are aligned and operating as a single, interrelated, interdependent system. Because if even one aspect of your organization is out of whack,...
by Kristen Ireland | May 8, 2025 | Leadership, Productivity & Growth
Welcome to the third article in our five-part series using Jay R. Galbraith’s Star Model ™ as a framework to ensure your business is aligned across five areas: strategy, structure, process, rewards, and people. Here, we explore why process is an important aspect of...
by Kristen Ireland | Apr 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
To build and grow a successful company, leaders must make sure all key business functions—from strategy, structure, and process to rewards and people—are humming along as one big integrated, interdependent system. Even one area of misalignment can jeopardize your...
