Rethinking organization

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Question 1

What if people outside the company participate

If you expect your organization to be more responsive your team needs context - they need to know whats going on in your company and in the market

Transparency becomes increasingly important

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If you expect your organization to be more responsive your team needs context - they need to know whats going on in your company and in the market

Transparency becomes increasingly important

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Question 2

Should a person do1 specialized job or

do different types of work

In a sense the crowning accomplishment of the hierarchy and its management processes is

the enterprise on autopilot

everyone ideally situated as a cog whirring on a steady unthinking and predictable machine

John Kotter

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In a sense the crowning accomplishment of the hierarchy and its management processes is

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John Kotter

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Specialization prevents people from doing

more jobs which could create more value

Whether contributing to a blog working on an open source project or sharing advice in a forum people choose to work on the things that interest them Everyone is an independent contractor

Gary Hamel

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Whether contributing to a blog working on an open source project or sharing advice in a forum people choose to work on the things that interest them Everyone is an independent contractor

Gary Hamel

httpblogswsjcommanagement20090324the-facebook-generation-vs-the-fortune-500

1 PurposeWhat is meaningful

2 MasteryThe urge to get better

3 AutonomyThe desire to be self directed

3 factors lead to better performance and personal satisfaction

Daniel Pink

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=u6XAPnuFjJc

Further inspiration

httpwwwslidesharenetfrankcalbergtips-to-increase-motivationhttpwwwslidesharenetfrankcalbergwhat-is-the-company-purpose

Question 3

What if people haveno titles and what if there

is no formal hierarchy

In large organizations resources

get allocated top-down

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In large organizations resources

get allocated top-down

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Imagine if there was only 1 venture capital company in the world and it was led by well letrsquos say Bill Gates How much innovation would we have if there was only 1 place to go for funding

And yet inside most organizations there is only 1 place to go for funding and that is up the chain of command

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What happens over time is you end up with many people in leadership positions who arenrsquot actually leaders Theyrsquore there because they had good political skills theyrsquore there because they had connections theyrsquore there because they added value last year or 5 years ago

But theyrsquore not there because they are true leaders and individuals that people want to follow

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SourceConversation between Terri Kelly and Gary Hamelhttpyoutube47yk2upT7tM

People who work for Gore have no titles

Those closest to the front line are going to be

better placed to understand the increasing demands of an informed customer and need to be able to respond to those demands

Peter Russian

httpwwwmixhackathonorghackathoncontributionhow-leaders-and-managers-see-their-purposehttpwwwmixhackathonorghackathoncontribution12-enemies-organizational-adaptability

At Red Hat the software company the

strategy making process is open to the entire organization

It is a company-wide conversation

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People have no titles There is no formal hierarchy

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Initiatives for you to try

Further inspiration

httpwwwslidesharenetfrankcalberg3-ways-of-organizinghttpwwwslidesharenetfrankcalberggood-leadershiphttpsdeliciouscomfrankcalbergcrowdfunding

Question 4

What if creativity isas important as efficiency

Hierarchies are useful They let us sort work into departments product divisions regions and the like with expertise time-tested procedures and clear reporting relationships and accountability so that we can do what we know how to do with efficiency predictability and effectiveness

Hierarchies are directed by familiar managerial processes for planning budgeting defining jobs hiring and firing and measuring results

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Hierarchies are useful They let us sort work into departments product divisions regions and the like with expertise time-tested procedures and clear reporting relationships and accountability so that we can do what we know how to do with efficiency predictability and effectiveness

Hierarchies are directed by familiar managerial processes for planning budgeting defining jobs hiring and firing and measuring results

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The management model that predominates in most organizations has its roots in the early 20th century

At that time management innovators were focused on

the challenge of achieving efficiency at scale Their

solution was the bureaucratic organization with its emphasis on standardization specialization hierarchy conformance and control

httpwwwmanagementexchangecomblogm-prizemanagement-20-challenge

Organizations were built around principles that deify conformance control alignment discipline and efficiency

The principles that organizations

have at their core are antithetical to innovation

Gary Hamel

httpwwwforbescomsitesstevedenning20121204gary-hamel-on-innovating-innovation

The reason that innovation often seems to be so difficult for established companies is that they employ highly capable people and then set them to work within organizational structures whose processes and values werenrsquot designed for the task at hand

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John Kotter

The successful organization of the future will have 2 organizational structures 1 A hierarchy2 A more teaming egalitarian and adaptive network

Both are designed and purposive While the hierarchy is as

important as it has always been for optimizing work the network is where big change happens It allows a company to more

easily spot big opportunities and then change itself to grab them

Further inspiration

httpwwwslidesharenetfrankcalbergcreativity-exerciseshttpissuucomfrankcalbergdocsbrainstormingdisneyhttpwwwslidesharenetfrankcalbergsix-thinking-hats-9989762httpwwwslidesharenetfrankcalbergbrainstorming-the-scamper-method

Question 5

What if people try their ideas out

Because strategic planning generally happens annually it shares the same shortcomings for companies as for countries with centrally planned economies misallocation of resources when market conditions change and difficulty responding to changed realities

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Because strategic planning generally happens annually it shares the same shortcomings for companies as for countries with centrally planned economies misallocation of resources when market conditions change and difficulty responding to changed realities

httpsloanreviewmiteduarticlehow-strategic-is-your-board

In an era that demands you leverage the benefits of unpredictability you need to create a culture of hypothesis-testing and quickly change course based on results

httpwwwinccomFirst-Round-Reviewletting-go-of-efficiency-can-accelerate-your-companyhtml

experiments require short-term losses for long-term gains Experiments require short-term

losses for long-term gains

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httpwwwmanagementexchangecomhack22quests22-organizing-principles

A person who is excited about

an idea tries it out

Further inspiration

httpwwwslidesharenetfrankcalberginputs-to-become-more-agilehttpwwwslidesharenetfrankcalbergstrategy-paradoxes-3551177

Question 6

What if people take decisions themselves

Top-down control-based hierarchical structures discourage individual initiative and reduce autonomy

httpwwwmixhackathonorghackathoncontribution12-enemies-organizational-adaptability

Top-down control-based hierarchical structures discourage individual initiative and reduce autonomy

httpwwwmixhackathonorghackathoncontribution12-enemies-organizational-adaptability

Instead of organizing hierarchically and with different functions organize cross functionally in project teams that change every 2 ndash 10 weeks

For each project a team member is selected as the lead who is responsible for delivering the project

This enables every person to experience leading a team throughout the year

httpblog7geesecom20121205learn-from-yammer-and-become-an-adaptive-tech-company

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In an adaptive organization the decision-making is pushed to the edges This reduces communication barriers and empowers the employees on the front-line to make decisions

Supercell is organized as a collection of small independent teams called cells tasked with developing new games or building new deep features for existing games

Cells have complete autonomy in terms of how they organize themselves prioritize ideas distribute work and determine what they ultimately produce The company as a whole is merely an aggregation of these cells a Supercell

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At a plant of General Electric in Durham North Carolina USA a plant that does the final assembly for the largest jet engines in the world they have

400 employees and 1 plant manager

So those employees are doing for example production scheduling quality control and training ndashtasks that historically we saw as managerial work

httpknowledgeckgsbeducn20141215china-business-strategythe-gary-hamel-interview-unleashing-another-revolution

1 PurposeWhat is meaningful

2 MasteryThe urge to get better

3 AutonomyThe desire to be self directed

3 factors lead to better performance and personal satisfaction

Daniel Pink

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=u6XAPnuFjJc

Leaders are chosen by people they lead The span of control is 400 to 1 or greater Compensation decisions are peer based

httpyoutube5sddabEDuvw

Initiatives for you to try

Further inspiration

httpwwwslidesharenetfrankcalbergquestions-to-discover-your-valueshttpwwwslidesharenetfrankcalbergvalues-43202941httpwwwslidesharenetfrankcalberghow-are-people-paid-for-what-they-dohttpwwwslidesharenetfrankcalberginputs-to-become-more-agilehttpwwwslidesharenetfrankcalbergpower-distance-34895063httpwwwslidesharenetfrankcalbergpower-to-the-people-34722633httpwwwslidesharenetfrankcalbergquestions-about-organization

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