Technology allows you to constantly do more, speed up and refine controls and reporting in organizations. The impact on productivity, creativity and motivation of teams at best is neutral. On the contrary, a small number of companies make the choice of trust. They “reinvent organizations” (Frédéric Laloux). Here operational units of human scale take the initiative and have the decision-making power. These companies claim to be post-bureaucratic, democratic, self-governed, holacratic or evolutionary-teal.

The variety of names suggests the variety of the organizations. There won’t be ONE pattern or ONE way to accomplish collective intelligence. It’s an exciting adventure of continuously adjusting and innovating structures and ways of working together. It’s also a demanding journey towards the unknown, which may generate fear, frustration and resistance.

Technology allows you to constantly do more, speed up and refine controls and reporting in organizations. The impact on productivity, creativity and motivation of teams at best is neutral. On the contrary, a small number of companies make the choice of trust. They “reinvent organizations” (Frédéric Laloux). Here operational units of human scale take the initiative and have the decision-making power. These companies claim to be post-bureaucratic, democratic, self-governed, holacratic or evolutionary-teal.

The variety of names suggests the variety of the organizations. There won’t be ONE pattern or ONE way to accomplish collective intelligence. It’s an exciting adventure of continuously adjusting and innovating structures and ways of working together. It’s also a demanding journey towards the unknown, which may generate fear, frustration and resistance.

If we treat people as if they were what they ought to be,
we help them to become what they are capable of being.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe