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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