Hierarchy -v- network
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Take a look at The Future of Management by Gary Hamel – he talks about lattices vs hierarchies.
Andy Piper
June 2, 2008
ah, that looks ideal.
Now, remind me how we map one to the other
[Imagines Richard saying "Only thing left is to sort out how to manage performance and reward in the new structure..."]
I asked an Open Source guy how it was to provide direction for development. He paused and said:
“It’s easy. Like herding cats is easy.”
Steve Ellwood
June 2, 2008
I always liked the ’stone soup’ fable as an analogy about how things can get done in a less structured organisation. Perhaps we need to work out if an organisation has barriers for making stone soup.
(If anyone has no idea what stone soup is, google / wikipedia is your friend)
sandyblair
June 2, 2008
Andy – sounds interesting … will do.
Steve – performance should be based on ‘contribution’ not the artificial ‘personal’ objectives that fracture an organisation’s processes under which we currently exist. I’m sure a better system could be created based on networks.
Sandy – I’ll have to look that one up myself!
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