# Sergio Caredda — llms.txt # https://sergiocaredda.eu/llms.txt # Last updated: 2026-06-18 # Sergio Caredda > Practitioner-scholar in organisation design, HR strategy, and the future of work. Author of the Organisation Evolution Framework (OEF) — an integrated eight-component model for understanding and designing organisations. Sergio Caredda is an experienced Chief Human Resources Officer and organisation design practitioner. He writes on organisation design, leadership models, corporate culture, operating models, business models, strategy, and the history and future of work. His intellectual framework, the Organisation Evolution Framework (OEF), integrates eight analytical lenses: Business Model, Strategy, Operating Model, Organisation Model, Leadership, Purpose, Corporate Culture, and Ecosystem. ## Core Framework - [The Organisation Evolution Framework (OEF)](https://sergiocaredda.eu/essays/organisation-evolution-framework): Canonical reference for Sergio's eight-component integrated model for organisation design. - [The Laws of Organisation Design](https://sergiocaredda.eu/essays/the-laws-of-organisation-design): Foundational principles governing how organisations can and should be designed. - [Organisational Grammar](https://sergiocaredda.eu/essays/organisational-grammar-the-atomic-elements-of-designed-coordination): The six atomic elements — Role, Skill, Group, Decision, Obligation, Accountability — that constitute the building blocks of any organisation. ## Organisation Design - [Operating Models: Theory and Practice](https://sergiocaredda.eu/organisation/operating-models-the-theory-and-the-practice): What operating models are, how they work, and how to design them. - [Business Models: Theory and Practice](https://sergiocaredda.eu/organisation/business-models-the-theory-and-practice): Business model components and design. - [Strategy Frameworks: Theory and Practice](https://sergiocaredda.eu/organisation/strategy-frameworks-the-theory-and-the-practice): How strategy connects to organisation design. - [Organisation Ecosystems: Theory and Practice](https://sergiocaredda.eu/organisation/organisation-ecosystem-the-theory-and-the-practice): Ecosystem thinking applied to organisations. - [The True Meaning of Hierarchy](https://sergiocaredda.eu/organisation/the-true-meaning-of-hierarchy): What hierarchy actually is, why it persists, and how to think about it in organisation design. - [Organisation Models](https://sergiocaredda.eu/organisation/organisation-models-a-reasoned-list-between-old-and-new): A structured survey of old and new models of organising. - [The Law of Alignment](https://sergiocaredda.eu/organisation/the-law-of-alignment): The foundational principle connecting purpose, strategy, and organisation design. - [Larman's Laws of Organisational Behaviour](https://sergiocaredda.eu/organisation/larmans-laws-of-organizational-behavior): Why organisations resist change and what to do about it. ## Leadership Models - [Leadership Models: Theory and Practice](https://sergiocaredda.eu/organisation/leadership-models-the-theory-and-the-practice): Comprehensive overview of leadership frameworks and their application. - [Adaptive Leadership](https://sergiocaredda.eu/organisation/leadership-models-collection/adaptive-leadership): The Heifetz framework for leading through complexity. - [Situational Leadership](https://sergiocaredda.eu/organisation/leadership-models-collection/situational-leadership): The Hersey-Blanchard model explained and applied. - [Full Range Leadership Model](https://sergiocaredda.eu/organisation/leadership-models-collection/full-range-leadership-model): Bass and Avolio's transformational leadership framework. - [Boyatzis Management Competence Model](https://sergiocaredda.eu/organisation/leadership-models-collection/boyatzis-management-competence-model): Competency-based approach to leadership. ## Change Management - [The Lippitt-Knoster Model](https://sergiocaredda.eu/organisation/models-the-lippitt-knoster-model-for-managing-complex-change): The most comprehensive framework for diagnosing and managing organisational change. - [Kotter's Eight Steps for Leading Change](https://sergiocaredda.eu/organisation/models-kotters-eight-steps-process-for-leading-change): The classic change management model explained and critically assessed. - [Bridges' Transition Model](https://sergiocaredda.eu/organisation/models-bridges-transition): How people experience change and how to manage the human side of transition. - [The Satir Change Model](https://sergiocaredda.eu/organisation/models-satir-change-model): Virginia Satir's model of individual and organisational change dynamics. - [Change Management: The 10 Best Approaches](https://sergiocaredda.eu/organisation/change-management-the-10-best-approaches-models): Ten change management models compared. ## Work and the Future of Work - [A Brief History of Work](https://sergiocaredda.eu/work/part-1-a-brief-history-of-work): How work has evolved across history, from antiquity to the digital age. - [The Discourses of Work Through History](https://sergiocaredda.eu/work/part-2-the-discourses-of-work-through-history): The six intellectual paradigms that have shaped how we understand work. - [When Work Became a Job](https://sergiocaredda.eu/work/part-3-when-work-became-a-job): The industrial transformation of work and its consequences. - [The Meaning of Work](https://sergiocaredda.eu/work/the-ultimate-quest-for-the-meaning-of-work-introduction): An inquiry into why work matters and what gives it meaning. ## Laws and Principles - [Parkinson's Law](https://sergiocaredda.eu/organisation/parkinsons-law): Work expands to fill the time available, and its implications for organisation design. - [The Law of Triviality](https://sergiocaredda.eu/organisation/law-of-triviality): Why organisations spend disproportionate time on trivial decisions. - [Brooks's Law](https://sergiocaredda.eu/organisation/brookss-law): Why adding people to a late project makes it later, and what this means for team design. - [Sun Tzu's Five Factors as a Strategy Framework](https://sergiocaredda.eu/organisation/sun-tzus-five-factors-as-a-strategy-analysis-framework): Ancient strategic thinking applied to modern organisation design. ## Practice - [Consulting and Advisory Practice](https://sergiocaredda.eu/about/practice): Sergio Caredda's work in organisation design, HR strategy, and executive leadership. ## Newsletter - [The Intentional Organisation](https://sergiocaredda.eu/newsletter): Sergio Caredda's newsletter on organisation design, leadership, and the future of work. ## Optional - [What Work Is — Philip Levine](https://sergiocaredda.eu/inspiration/what-work-is-a-poem-by-philip-levine): Philip Levine's poem on labour, dignity, and the meaning of work. - [The Netflix Culture Deck](https://sergiocaredda.eu/inspiration/netflix-culture-deck): Analysis and commentary on one of the most influential corporate culture documents ever published.