Saturday, March 21, 2009

Organizations are Reshaping to Engine Structures

Organizations all around the world are strangled by triangular organigrams and command & control structure that limit and strangle the power of individuals. Enourmous stress and frustration results, while wear and tear accentuate. In the collaborative era companies, organizations and societies should understand that their triangular structure is in fact a piramid (if they are in various countries, they have at least as many faces or triangules) or even a cone. but if you look at gods view of theses structures or you google earth it (if you prefer) you will only see circular zone os influnece and then you will grasp why cisco is getting it right. they ignore geography, hierarchy or even backgound when outting teams together to accelerate key decisions. Organizations where built to produce energy. Just as an engine, where the pistons dont report to the spark plugs or the transmission to the injection system...in companies the flux and synchronization result in efficient energy production. Not hierarchy.

Top Down is just for Ketchup


In our days, all industries face the consequences of the empowered client (customer). There are only rare cases of those which are not inverting their top down approaches to creativity, production and innovation.  I'd say that only in the Ketchup industry has this philosophy been kept (even there just in packaging).  However evident this reality may seem, fewer have spoken of the shift this reality has to produce in politics. The citizen (customer) is creating new models of social manifestation and intervention. This citizenship trend emerges, and while some politicians are anxious to understand them, others feel threatend by them. A remaining few understand these two realities will have to exsit just as newspapers and the internet. To reinforce and serve each other. 

People & Context

There are two types of people. Those who think that their context is like a transperent boundry..a glass cieling which they will never transpose. A limitation they have nop control over and a God-intended-must-accept reality (at least for the few who even understand or believe in a God). The others accept context as a challenge. A playground for their talents to blosom. Their clay with which to shape history or some sort of sign of social prospertity and eternity. The first bunch act as support actors (sometimes) whilst the later feel they hold a lead role in the world.