I suggest we aim at a package of shifts in organizational life: a 10 point manifesto, the Remarkable Organization Manifesto (AKA about time we move in these new directions. Here it is:
- From a multitude of ‘methods’ for a multitude of initiatives that solve problems more or less but left no legacy behind, to a single Mobilizing Platform with rules of the game that builds constant capacity. No apologies, for us this is Viral Change™
- From ‘culture’ as a project, to the shaping and curating of an internal social movement (tip, don’t look in the MBA books)
- From prima donna push systems (communications), to both push and pull systems (communications + behavioural) that work in tandem
- From obsession with processes to leading through behaviours
- From top down organising and dictating to bottom up grassroots organising
- From predominant hierarchical influence to the wide use and orchestration of peer-to-peer influence and networks
- From a primary formal organization with its overgrown structures of teams, committees and task forces, to a healthy and leading informal organization
- From overwhelming top down narrative systems (missions, visions and the rest) to organic bottom up storytelling
- From top down leadership domination to top down working with a powerful distributed leadership system and supporting it ‘backstage’
- From ‘change’ and change management to ability to change and creation of a permanent state of readiness.
We are in serious need of these shifts. The music has been there for a while, but I have not seen the orchestra, so I suspect there is an organizational development conspiracy in the form of a massive MP3 of some sort.
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