Cultivating Flows by Jean Russell Herman Wagter

Author:Jean Russell, Herman Wagter [Jean Russell, Herman Wagter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Business & Economics, Organizational Behavior
ISBN: 9781911193166
Google: EtH5DwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Triarchy Press
Published: 2016-10-10T03:52:53+00:00

Organizational Ideas as a Result Instead of a Start

We believe that forms start with people coalescing around a purpose. Cooperation requires solving practical issues like acquiring and allocating resources, agreements on who contributes what, internal and external communication, resolving conflict and dilemmas, and so on. But only to the extent that there are issues that need to be solved: they only need to be “solved” enough to fit the purpose of the entity, the capacity and skills and motivations of the people involved, the entity’s size, and what its environment demands. Organizational solutions are to be fitted around the individuals: they are a result, not the starting point.

Using tried and tested concepts and ideas on how to solve these challenges is excellent, if you pick and choose based on merit, fitting to the situation. The other way around (choosing a model and stuffing people in it) is wrong.

Even when we believe many social flows function best in process hierarchy, there is a place for all that has been discovered and tried in the past: parts of functional hierarchies, or for parts of peer production. It depends on what needs to be solved, and for how long.

Solutions are transient: scale makes a lot of difference, people grow, society changes. To grow and extend our reach with our reframe, we have to choose a path or approach to scale.

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