Killing the org chart: organizational, cultural and leadership models on the bleeding edge by Mark Stockley

Killing the org chart: organizational, cultural and leadership models on the bleeding edge

complex things are self-organized

organic life

linux

www

Hierarchies work

kill motivation

Not agile, not creative

will reach a natural limit

AT&T could not build the internet

Networks

Create stronger values

acceleration

exponential complexity

Q

What about direction towards a goal

What about collections of hierarchies?

Core media (the speaker)

"it's like fast learning"

Everyone can come to a management meeting

Everything is a project

Every meeting finishes with reflection

open spaces

Got rid of departments

Collective awareness works better than process

tools that work

Problems within orgs (research)

too much irrelevant information

difficult to judge relevance

download from core media

short on proof

quite recent changes

passion

create weak ties

create environments where people must listen