Andy and Mon-Chaio explore Marvin Weisbord's Six Box Model, a framework from the 1970s for diagnosing organizational issues. They explain each of the six parts of the model: purpose, structure, relationships, rewards, leadership, and helpful mechanisms, and then illustrate it being used to assess an example software development company. Listeners will learn how to guide investigation into a situation using the model and the advantages they get from it over just winging it.

Transcript - https://thettlpodcast.com/2025/02/18/s3e6-6-box-model/

References

• Organizational Diagnosis: Six Places To Look for Trouble With or Without a Theory - https://leeds-faculty.colorado.edu/Rosse/Courses/4003/Readings/Weisbord.pdf
• Analysing a team situation using BART - https://open.spotify.com/episode/0ccnbKOCrt1mpw8LRgbdJz?si=91df18bddf3b43c8