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Herb Nold

Herb Nold

Professor of Business Administration at Polk State College; author of books on organizational performance, leadership, and management including "Patterns of Mastery"

Jun 19, 2026

CaitlinHOST
8:02
What were the most interesting or consistent patterns that you guys uncovered?
8:06
Well, I'll go ahead and take that one.
8:08
One of the most consistent patterns we see is that organizations primarily have very capable people.
8:19
But the management of those people and the structure of the organization prevents the organization from allowing the people to maximize their abilities.
8:32
We consistently see these misalignments across organizations.
8:40
we see that organizations still use what we call traditional rules-based structures that actually stifles innovation and operating systems that reward control and compliance as opposed to encouraging people to be innovative and thoughtful.
9:08
And another pattern we see is that high performing organizations do not rely on like one heroic leader.

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CaitlinHOST
16:04
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