Author Archives: Raghu Ananthanarayanan, Vandana Menon and K. S. Narendran

Feature Article: Kaipa’s Pyramid as a Yantra: A Tensegrity-Mandala

Feature Articles / March 2009

Understanding How Teams Work

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One of the most interesting mental models I have come across in recent times is Prasad Kaipa’s use of the tetrahedron. I have been playing with it. Our consulting group took the exploration of our own work processes based on the paper “Application of Pyramid Building in Organisations: Aligning Strategy, Process and People in Organisations” by Prasad Kaipa, Chris Newham and Russ Volckmann.

http://selfcorp.prasadkaipa.com/selfcorpnew/pyramidbuildingapplication.htm

narendranAs I worked with the model further, I …