Similarity and Success

In my consulting work withing large, complex organizations, I began to realize remarkable similarities among organizations. In fact, there were more remarkable similarities among successful, large organizations than remarkable differences.

In smaller organizations I found this not to be the case at all; quite the opposite. The differences among younger, smaller organizations and particularly between them and their larger cousins are considerable.

After decades of monitoring innovation, progress, and outcomes within businesses of all sizes, I came to understand that the successful outcomes were more closely related to those similarities than the differences.

At the organizational and meta-process level, the more attributes you have in common with other successful enterprises, the higher your chances of success.

Posted by: William W. (Woody) Williams

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