🇪🇺 3-minute read In The Democratic Organization (1994), Ackoff explores why in society, we tend to be allergic to autocratic patterns, while in organizations, we adhere to them willingly, if not naturally. The way we understand our organizations determines both their shape and substance. Let’s explore and reflect on his 3 perspectives. First, Ackoffs systemic…
Categorie: Engels
Organizations should work towards their last implementation
🇪🇺 4-minute read TENET: increasing the degree of team empowerment, renders ‘implementation’ increasingly obsolete. Or: over-zealous leadership increasingly taking the initiative to change things in the org is negatively correlated with teams taking the initiative. In traditional hierarchical organizations (most of them still are) there is a ruling assumption that’s been alive since Frédéric Taylor…