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The self-management train has left the station. The journey is very bumpy. Arrivals TBD. Watch out for updates
The historical existence of several layers of management in any organization may be related to its size. In a command and control firm of some size, managers ensure that objectives are declared, and then check what is going on from people who are doi[...]
The self-management train has left the station. The journey is very bumpy. Arrivals TBD. Watch out for updates
The historical existence of several layers of management in any organization may be related to its size. In a command and control firm of some size, managers ensure that objectives are declared, and then check what is going on from people who are doi[...]
The best organizational model is to have more than one under the same roof
Command and control management has fewer friends, and it’s quite terminally[...] Articulating your core belief system, plus finding your ‘Space in the world’. The re-framing of the company steering wheel (4 and 5 of 5)
We have been exploring briefly in the last days the Steering system of the company under the formula: (1) Space in the World (Purpose) + (2) Core Beliefs + (3)
My last Employee Engagement model (7/7): Activists on the payroll.
In this model, the employee (1) is an activist, (2) largely working peer-to-peer, and (3) progressing towards (if not arriving at) self-management. Let me qualify the three components.
1) Activist. This means acting. The word activist contains the[...]
Debunking the Myths of Employee Engagement: a land of 'Emperors with No Clothes'. The six models.
Since employee engagement has become an industry in its own right, and is taking over a lot of air time, I want to ‘elevate the confusion to a higher level’. Not really! But I think we all in the Human Capital business should put our cards on the[...]
Redesigning the organization. This is the best time for an upgrade.
If you had the possibility of designing an ideal organizational structure or redesigning one that you already have, what would you do? Most people would probably answer first with, what they do not want to do or have. We are more aware of what we dis[...]
Defining ourselves by what we are against, does not advance the cause of the for
I have always been a bit wary of people who repeatedly define themselves by what they are against. It makes me suspicious of whether they are much for anything. I want to know what they really stand for.
It is human to reject things that one does [...]
Will the last employee in Command and Control Inc/Ltd/Plc/SA please turn off the lights? (But have a good lantern with you)
The new, emerging organizations, many people would agree, are more collaborative, more leadership-distributed, less top-down, with more levels of empowerment etc. There is a universal view that the traditional command and control model is exhausted. [...]
My last Employee Engagement model. (7/7): Activists on the payroll.
In this model, the employee (1) is an activist, (2) largely working peer-to-peer, and (3) progressing towards (if not arriving at) self-management. Let me qualify the three components.
1) Activist. This means acting. The word activist contains the[...]
Debunking the Myths of Employee Engagement: a land of Emperors with No Clothes. (1/7) The six models
Over the next 7 days, we wanted to revist a series of posts from 2017, exploring the important topic of Employee Engagement.
A while ago I posted
Organizational pathologies (3 of 10) : Premature de-hierarchical-ization
Hierarchy is dead, proclaim people in the advanced, enlightened, guru-read organization. Hierarchy is bad, ugly, cause of all problems, constraining, limiting, demode. Let’s get rid of it.
Let’s have a chat with Antoine-Laurent Lavois[...]
The Pancake Revolution in management missed some details
Flat organizations, part of the Pancake Revolution (got the patent pending) that we have gone through, trimming management layers and getting very very very agile, have a geographical problem. The (corporate) ladder has become a small kitchen stool s[...]
My last Employee Engagement model. (7/7): Activists on the payroll.
In this model, the employee (1) is an activist, (2) largely working peer-to-peer, and (3) progressing towards (if not arriving at) self-management. Let me qualify the three components.
1) Activist. This means acting. The word activist contains the[...]
Debunking the Myths of Employee Engagement: a land of Emperors with No Clothes. (1/7) The six models
A while ago I posted my views on Employee Engagement. Since this has become an industry in its own right, and is taking over a lot of air time, I[...]
Will the last employee in Command and Control Inc/Ltd/Plc/SA please turn off the lights? (But have a good lantern with you)
The new, emerging organizations, many people would agree, are more collaborative, more leadership-distributed, less top-down, with more levels of empowerment etc. There is a universal view that the traditional command and control model is exhausted. [...]
Tell me what you want to prove and I’ll give you the name of a company.
Consoled only by having bought the book for £ 0.09 ( and £2.80 postage) in Amazon marketplace, the reality is that it ruined my evening in a otherwise predictable and safe hotel room abroad. Fooled by an attractive title and the suggestion that it [...]
State of the Enterprise Address Summary: Rethinking in progress.
I don’t think ‘rethinking the enterprise’ is anything new. You could argue that the history of management has this rethinking embedded. However, I believe we are in front of a more-than-tweaking inflection point. I’m not usually very excited [...]
Defining ourselves by what we are against, does not advance the cause of the for.
I have always been a bit wary of people who repeatedly define themselves by what they are against. It makes me suspicious of whether they are much for anything. I want to know what they really stand for.
It is quite human to reject things that one[...]
The best organizational model is the one that has more than one under the roof
Command and control management has less and less friends, and it’s quite terminally ill as well. The heirs are fighting for a piece of the estate, not quite sure what to take. It's the time to replace the organ[...]
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