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Characteristics of a good organization

For the past two years I’v been reading and researching to get an answer to what are characteristics of a really good organization. I admit, that is not a long time, some people have used tens of years studying what is a good organization. But, based on my experience a good organization has the following characteristics:

• Learning Organization
  • All the five disciplines of it. We need to be able to learn all the time in rapidly changing world. Also we need to be able to cooperate with other people, to work as a team. Have a shared vision in everything we do.
• Direct Use Of Power
  • Everybody today writes only about collaborative management, but come on, really, you can’t always satisfy everybody! And even if you could, you’d missed the right time to take the action.
• Not Direct Use Of Power
  • The opposite the direct use of power, this is a pop nowadays. And yes,  you’ll need a lot of this skill, but you should not forget the direct use either. You’ll need to find the right balance..  as we agile guys would say, find good-enough balance (nobody is perfect).

With this kind of features organization is able to a) act rapidly b) keep up their expertize c) have a common dream which motivates (almost) everybody d) come along with different people and cultures. Conclusion is, one word, leadership.