Doug asks, "Does anyone know what this (whole acknowledging the equal
importance of each individual) looks like as a strategy?"
Yes. It's my business and it works. There is more than one strategy for
this. There are many which can be approached from serious design
initiatives. Few are interested in design or such serious intitiatives.
So I won't share them.
Some are readily available and effective without such major challenges to
thinking and to existing organisation structures. Although, in the end,
they are equally transformational. One of these is to provide a story or
metaphor (complexity, living systems, etc.) and then to pursue a single
focus with creativity. That single focus is "distribute accountability".
This can be begun at eny level and in any increment. Learning and
experience accumulate, resuilts flow, and the pace will then accelerate.
This will require distribution of information and knowledge and an
increase in intelligence will both be required and be the result. A
wonderful cycle of increasing returns will result.
Or the top of the hierarchy and formal systems will kill it off for its
success. (So far, the latter hasn't happened in my experience.)
--Michael McMaster <Michael@kbddean.demon.co.uk>
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