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Organizational Life Cycles – The View From Coos Bay
Jon A. SouderExecutive DirectorCoos Watershed AssociationCharleston, OR, U.S.A.
(www.cooswatershed.org)
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Life Cycles We Know!
Characteristics:
• Beginning & Ending
• Distinct Phases
• Different Needs At Each Phase
• Changing Threats Over Time
• No Certainty About Continuing Over Time
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Organizations Are Similar!
Formation
Expansion
StabilizationCrises &Decline
Renew orDissolve
Cycle ≈ 10 Years
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Formation
Expansion
StabilizationCrises &Decline
Renew orDissolve
Characteristics:
• Meets Identified Need• Entrepreneurial &
Creative• Searching For Resources
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Formation
Expansion
StabilizationCrises &Decline
Renew orDissolve
Characteristics:
• Rapid Growth• Innovation & Expansion• High Staff Commitment• Informal Structure
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Formation
Expansion
StabilizationCrises &Decline
Renewal orDissolution
Characteristics:
• Formal Rules & Controls• Efficiency & Stability• Planning Emphasized• Performance Measures
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Formation
Expansion
StabilizationCrises &Decline
Renew orDissolve
Characteristics:
• Staff Burnout & Turnover• Entrenched Programs• Performance Declines• Loss of Support
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Formation
Expansion
StabilizationCrises &Decline
Renew orDissolve
Characteristics:
• Adapt Or Die!• Search For New Programs• Reflect On Purpose• Spinoff Organizations
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Paths Not Always Sequential!
Formation
Expansion
StabilizationCrises &Decline
Renew orDissolve
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Paths Not Always Sequential!
Formation
Expansion
StabilizationCrises &Decline
Renew orDissolve
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Stories From The Coos
Formation
Expansion
StabilizationCrises &Decline
Renew orDissolve
Cycle ≈ 10 YearsInstitution ≈ 50 Years
2012 1994
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Formation
Expansion
StabilizationCrises &Decline
Renew orDissolve
Stories:
• Experience of spotted owl• Potential coho listing• “Statement of Shared
Values” (took 2 years)
1994 - 1996
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Formation
Expansion
StabilizationCrises &Decline
Renew orDissolve
Stories:
• 1996 Storm Response• Jobs-in-Woods; Hire-the-
Fishermen Work Crews• $1.2MM Coastal Wetlands
1997 - 2001
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Formation
Expansion
StabilizationCrises &Decline
Renew orDissolve
Stories:
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Formation
Expansion
StabilizationCrises &Decline
Renew orDissolve
Stories:
2002 - 2004
• Required to Payback Outstanding Advances
• Unresponsive Accounting• Conflicts With County
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Formation
Expansion
StabilizationCrises &Decline
Renewalor Dissolution
Characteristics:
• Organizational Audit• Strategic Framework Plan• Changed Bookkeeping (or)• Board Development2004 -
2006
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Formation
Expansion
StabilizationCrises &Decline
Renew orDissolve
Characteristics:
• Model Watershed Program• Higher Order Restoration• Focus on Science• Partnerships
2007 - 2009
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Formation
Expansion
StabilizationCrises &Decline
Renew orDissolve
Stories:
• Expand Internships• Youth Programs with H.S.• Community Sustainability• Regional Planning
2010 –2012
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Take Home Messages
1. Organizations go through cycles
2. Success is not a linear path
3. Threats & challenges change over time
4. Different strengths are needed to respond to these changes
5. Understanding cycles allows you do develop strategies to respond
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Acknowledgements• Based On:
“The Human Dimensions of Stream Restoration Working with Diverse Partners to Develop and Implement Restoration” chapter in Stream Restoration: A Comprehensive Guide to Planning, Implementation and Evaluation edited by Roni, Beechie, & Hanson to be published by Blackwell in 2012.
• Literature Foundation:
Quinn, R.E. & Cameron, K. (1983). “Organizational life cycles and shifting criteria of effectiveness: some preliminary evidence.” Management Science 29(1): 33-51.
Downs, A. (1967). Inside Bureaucracy (Boston: Little, Brown & Co.).
• Organizational Training:
Guadalupe Guajardo and Cliff Jones, Non-profit Association of Oregon
Ford Institute Leadership Program, Ford Family Foundation