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Why Organizations Misbehave is a newsletter about why organizations don't work the way they're supposed to — and why that usually has less to do with the people in them than it looks like.
Most explanations for organizational problems default to individual failings: someone lacks judgment, someone isn't leading well, someone doesn't care enough. This newsletter doesn't deny that individual failings matter, but it starts from a different premise. Most problems are actually the predictable output of structural conditions — the incentives, decision rights, information flows, and accountability structures a person is operating inside. Change the structure, and often the behavior resolves on its own.
Each edition takes one recurring pattern — in leadership, decision-making, accountability, feedback, or team performance — and traces it back to the structural conditions producing it. The goal is diagnostic clarity: understanding what's actually happening before reaching for a fix.
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All editions of Why Organizations Misbehave are written by Alexander Spradling, PhD. Alexander is an organizational consultant and executive coach based in Austin, Texas. He works with CEOs and senior executives in the United States and abroad, coaching in English, Spanish, and French. If you want to learn more, visit his Linkedin profile or website.
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aspradling
- Website: https://www.impromi.com