Category: Organization
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How will companies approach the management challenge?
Here is a visionary tweet by Kenneth Mikkelsen on how companies in the future will approach the management challenge. The businesses will: Have a higher purpose beyond making profit Hire people who are passionate about this higher purpose See all stakeholders as equally important Cultivate long-term relationships with suppliers Have open doors and be transparent…
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Pre-conditions for self-organization
The following is a quote from Harrison Owen on the World wide Open Space Technology email list October 14, 2014. I have changed the formatting. “The essential pre-conditions for self-organization are: A Real business issue (something that people really care about). High levels of complexity such that no single person or group has a prayer…
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Sociokrati är som en skogsträdgård
Esbjörn Wandt skriver i Skogsträdgården på Holma att “det finns intressanta paralleller mellan hur sociokrati och en skogsträdgård fungerar” eftersom båda bygger på självorganisation. I artikeln beskriver Esbjörn hur det levande bygger på “ett samspel mellan självorganiserande enheter” och “ett ständigt flöde av energi, materia och information“. På samma sätt påminner sociokrati om naturen med sina självstyrande…
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What if the organization is a living system?
Holacracy is described as a new operating system 1 for evolution-powered organizations. It’s a punchy analogy which people understand. What people seem to forget is this: The operating system as a metaphor requires people to execute the programming code, but people aren’t microprocessors. This might seem like playing with words, but metaphors both reflect and…
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Practices related to self-management
Self-managed organizations adapt continuously, fluidly, and organically provided a few basic practices are put in place. Frederic Laloux emphasizes the following three practice in Reinventing Organizations (pp. 270—271): Decision-making (by consent): Make sure that all can make any decision, as long as they seek advice from people affected and people who have expertise. Conflict resolution:…
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Citizen Hive’s tree organization
Citizen Hive in Lund, Sweden, use a tree on their organization page to show where they are positioned in relation to the larger context of other organizations and society. Citizen Hive use Sociocracy and have a nice description of Sociocracy on their governance page. Thanks to Michael Göthe for providing the link. Here and here…
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BPT’s tree organization structure
Here is Brighton Permaculture Trust’s tree shaped organization structure. The tree with its trunk and spreading branches is a down-to-earth way of representing an organization. It turns the traditional pyramid on its head. The trunk and branches are there to lift the leaves up into the sun where they can do their job most effectively.…
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Tree shaped circle organization
This is a Sociocratic circle organization which was created at the Sociocracy & the Art of Facilitation Training at Ängsbacka on March 22-24. The idea to draw the circle organization as a tree comes from Nova Wegerif, Ängsbacka. Related posts: Sociocracy requires a new mindset Scrum vs. Sociocracy Sociocratic principles can be implemented in many…
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How to enable and sustain self-organization
Harrison Owen, the originator of Open Space Technology, lists eight steps for the care and feeding of self-organization systems in Wave Rider: Leadership for High Performance in a Self-Organizing World. The number of steps can be fewer or more, depending on how one counts, but these are the eight essentials: Do Your Homework Before You…
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What is organization?
I don’t think we are working differently enough. The prevailing assumption is that organization is something we design, create and control. I think the world is fundamentally self-organizing. We don’t create it, and we certainly don’t control it, but we can live in it with greater joy and less effort. We can learn to enhance…