"The Eight Rings of Organizational Influence: How to Structure Your Organization for Successful Change"

Ron Rosenberg

Journal for Quality and Participation

Summer 2003, pp. 30-34

This article presents a model based on organizations that have successfully implemented change. The model consists of eight "rings":

1. A clear vision—This should include a clearly defined mission statement and a set of values that define behavioral guidelines for achieving the vision.
2. Patterns in the external environment that affect the organization—These include predictive, causal, and random patterns.
3. Cycles in the external environment that affect the organization—Cycles can be natural manufactured, or imposed.
4. Passion in your people—Hire for passion and do things that inspire it.
5. Focus in your people—Create an environment that allows for focus and eliminates distraction.
6. Balance in your people—Balance should be between life inside and outside work; planning and execution; improvement and application; risk and comfort; full-steam ahead and regeneration.
7. Learning process—Facilitate individual and organizational learning, and celebrate failure.
8. Support process—Identify and involve customers and suppliers; facilitate best practice exchanges; reward team efforts.

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