THE AGE OF CARE Connect. Attend. Respond. Evolve.
A question which sits quietly beneath much of today’s organizational thinking
For decades, organizations have been designed around the pursuit of efficiency, scale, control, and predictability. These priorities shaped not only organizational structures and management practices, but also an understanding of what effective leadership resembles. These assumptions reflected in many ways the needs of an earlier era. This era was characterized by industrial expansion, operational optimization, and the search for stability. It was a world that appeared far more manageable than the current business world.
What if we have misunderstood what genuinely holds organizations together?
The assumption is that organizations are held together by structure, strategy, and control. Correspondingly hierarchies are designed, processes are defined, systems are optimized and governance mechanisms are refined. All with the expectation that coherence throughout the organisation will follow.
This assumption worked reasonably well for a long time.
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