The Art of work
We are a consulting company focused on excellence in strategy, leadership, and high performance executive teamwork in technology driven businesses.
Over years as practitioners and consultants, we've learned that success in technology based businesses is derived directly from the ability of leadership to consistently answer six critical questions:
1. What is the long term enduring purpose of our organization?
2. In the next 3-5 years, what will we have created in the world?
What is our vision?
3. At a high level, how will we achieve that vision? What is our strategy?
4. Who do we need to become to succeed? What are our values?
5. At the day to day level, how will we align our actions with our strategy
and values? What is our framework for execution?
6. How will we know if we're succeeding?
What is our measurement system?
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For more information send mail to theartofwork@theartofwork.com
or call us at (206) 251-6930.
We’d love to work with you.
Software is functional, collaborative art.
Competitive advantage is shaped by creative teamwork.
Teamwork is revealed in the quality of every product.
Strategy is whatever sets you apart from your competition.
Leaders become leaders by leading, not by being given a title.
Organizations and teams are shaped by daily action.
What Makes Working with
The Art of Work Different?
Teamwork, leadership, perspective, strategy, results.
Many consultants are selling a particular methodology, and a particular way of learning this methodology. You’re the cookie, they’re the cutters.
We demand that your team develop it’s own aesthetic of work - it’s own "art of work". Our goal isn’t to tell you how to do what you do, but to have you notice how you are doing it. We help you design an organization that is increasingly self-improving. You build your teamwork by watching yourselves do real work.
Everything we do is aimed at better results. We work on systemic problems when the entire organization seems blind or stuck, we work on team integration when the project is faltering, and we work on individual issues when the individual feels blocked.
Fundamentally, we’re about learning how to deal with real problems in real-time with increasing clarity and effectiveness. We create environments which allow you (and us) to practice the art of work.
