The Organizational Sweet Spot

The Organizational Sweet Spot: Engaging
the Innovative Dynamics of Your Social Networks
Charles
(Kalev) Ehin, Ph.D.
Emeritus Professor of Management
The Gore School of Business
Westminster College, Salt Lake City
The organizational sweet spot is like the sweet spot on the
strings of a tennis racket. In a general sense, the sweet spot of the racquet
is the area of the string bed that produces the best combination of feel and
power. In an enterprise, the sweet spot is created by the overlap of the formal
and informal systems of the organization. That is, under the right
conditions the informal components of a venture will begin to overlap more and
more with the formal elements of a business.
This overlap is a
very desirable state for any venture. That spot, in essence, represents the
area where the formal and informal systems of an organization have reached “a
meeting of the minds” over the fundamental goals, policies and processes of an
organization. What is particularly noteworthy about this agreement is that it’s
not reached through any sort of formal negotiations. Rather, it is emergent.
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