By Ted Rau for Enlivening Edge Magazine
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Let’s play good news and bad news.
The good news is that I’m seeing more and more self-management and trust-ful and leader-ful organizations emerge, or traditional organizations that include more patterns of shared responsibility.
What’s the bad news?
I’m worried. I’m worried because I think the movement has significant gaps.
Let me explain. Every organization consists of team-level and organization-level functions. (See, for example the Viable Systems Model) The team level functions do the major work of the organization— producing the things, providing the service, selling and marketing. Self-organization is relatively easy on those levels.
What’s hard is to find the right balance between centralizing and decentralizing the organization-level functions that create alignment.[…]
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