The great Kurt Lewin was the first, in the late 1930s, to distinguish leadership styles: Authoritarian, Democratic and Laissez-faire. So far, so good. But guess what: Two of these "styles" have…
It seems like everyone is putting out some sort of theory on “Digital Transformation” these days – whether we want them or not. So much is being aired about this supposed revolution, and related…
Most managers and business leaders aim to make their organizations flatter. They try to reduce middle management, to skim the amount of hierarchical layers, or they scrap internal bureaucracy in…
Since the rise of the corporation at the dawn of the industrial age, much has been said and written about leadership, power, and structure in organizations. Some in the field of organizational…
Change is not a journey. Never has been. Trouble is: Change agents around the world have been imagining change as projects, programs, planned exercises to be "kicked off" and "implemented". We have…
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Competition within organizations is neither good, nor bad. Whether internal competition is useful, constructive and appropriate depends on the level on which we let it…
A two-part interview with Niels Pflaeging by Philippe Brière. Part 1.
Philippe Brière: Niels, “Creating prosperity while nurturing human and natural systems” - that is the vision of the Business…
The realm of organizational leadership, collaboration and work is packed with methods, concepts and theories. In spite of that abundance of concepts and dogmas, however, most of us are hardly aware…
Command-and-control (a.k.a. management the social technology) is "socially loose". Here, pressure is performed from the top-down. Control works just the same way. It is, quite simply, the top of the…
A few months ago, a student from Germany asked me how it came that I was "pretty much the only one" passionately and repeatedly claiming that Theory X people do not exist. The student suggested that…
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