Niels PflaegingIn #complexity, being #networked or having a networked organization is not enough. Here, organizations also need to be #federative, or #decentralized, in order to allow for #agility and consistent #selforganization.
This "mode of operating" is the only way to #highperformance, in complexity.
This is why centralized #management and centralized steering are dead. Stone dead.
For more: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/decentralization-natural-inevitable-feature-niels-pflaeging
#betacodex #agile #lean #leadership #newwork #systemsthnking #orgdesign #orgdev
Decentralization: A natural and an inevitable feature of organizations in complexity
The problem with probably 99% of models, or concepts of organizational design, organizational structure and development is that they fail to appreciate the difference between periphery and center - and are thus antiquated. Such approaches now belong on the garbage heap of history, and for a simple r