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…
The Holacracy fad is over, or at least it is coming to an end. Finally. To me, the demise of this fad is a relief, as it is to most of you, I suppose. But there are bigger questions to ask within our…
Most managers today, most change agents and people in organizations doubt that something like organizational transformation is possible at all. At least within their particular company, or…
Ben Linders interviewed Silke Hermann & Niels Pflaeging about their new book OpenSpace Beta. A handbook for organizational transformation in just 90 days. This is a excerpt of the interview which was…
Niels recently gave a couple of interviews to Croatian media, ahead of the forthcoming COMELEON Conference, which will happen in Zagreb on 24 and 25 October 2019. The text below is an edited…
Words can blind us - or they can make us see. Most of the time, we are not fully aware that the words we use are loaded with meaning: It makes a hell of a difference whether we are talking about…
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 -…
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