It is questionable that our world is spinning "ever faster", even though pundits of supposed progress like to preach that gospel. "The hypothesis of "constant acceleration" that so many thought leaders and even scientists like German sociologist Hartmut Rosa have advocated is a just nonsense, if you think about it", says Niels Pflaeging. “What's troubling us in our societies and at work, in organizations, is not an ever-increasing rate of change. But an apparently never-ending misunderstanding around the power of time. And about how to make clever use of time, together."
While the suffering is visible to most in organizations, the solution of better time orientation isn't so obvious. Today's organizations, for example, are stuck in capacity orientation, batch processing - even in knowledge work! -, constant planning, approval rituals and centralized command-and-control-steering that causes endless delays, stop-and-go processing, and makes even the simplest things (even the purchasing of office supplies) a challenge. “We need to be better at making time a force of organizing, For ease of operation, rhythm, punctuality, flow, and the highest level of self-organization – especially in times of complexity, crises, and AI.” says Niels Pflaeging. ”Which is why time orientation lies at the heart of Beta organizing."
Read a related article by Niels Pflaeging about the power of time-oriented organizing in societies and “at work” in organizations: https://nielspflaeging.substack.com/p/time-is-vastly-underrated-as-a-force