The Organisational Addiction™ Test

Is your organisation an addict?

Ten questions. Two minutes. Find out whether your organisation is chasing the reward, or hooked on it, and which of the six states it is in.

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The book

The High Functioning Addict

The High Functioning Addict by Darran Ling. How our most successful organisations destroy themselves.
Why our most successful organisations are so often the most dangerously hooked.

The test is the diagnosis. The book is the whole story: how an organisation stops focusing on what made it successful and instead gets hooked on the rewards success brings, at the cost of the service and the customer. How the addiction hides inside organisations, and what it takes to break the habit.

Nine warning signs. Six states. One uncomfortable question: would anyone notice if the winner was the addict?

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How the test reads it

The nine markers

Three stages, three signs each. The last three are the alarm markers, the ones that catch the high functioning addict.

Tap any marker to see how it scores.

Free Action Pack with every result: worksheets and an action plan to run with your team.

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The author
Darran Ling

Darran Ling

Darran Ling is an organisational transformation specialist, formerly a Global Managing Director and Partner at several boutique advisory firms. He has worked inside and alongside major public and private sector organisations, from UK government to FTSE 100 and 250, and Fortune 500 companies. His work spans operating model design, large scale transformation and organisational behaviour, with a particular focus on the gap between what organisations say they value and what their systems actually reward.

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