Survey: Employee-driven initiatives in organizations
Do self-managing organizations have more progressive ways to support employee-driven initiatives than traditional hierarchies? Do those mechanisms work? We are conducting a survey that aims at finding out how employee’s initiatives, especially those related to the environment and sustainable development, are realized in their organization. By responding to the survey you contribute to an important […]
Leaderless leadership in radically decentralized organizations
“Leaderless leadership in radically decentralized organizations” – the article is out, published in The Routledge Critical Companion to Leadership Studies. I finally got hold of my physical copy of the book 😅 Thinking about the title of an academic article is often quite a struggle. It should entail the right key words and be informative […]
Everything everywhere all at once
This is an interesting analysis of Trumpism, and how people become dependent on leaders. The authors of the article Dr Suze Wilson and Sarah Chace employ e.g. a psychoanalytic lense on group phenomena. In anxiety triggered by various disruptive changes, a group may defend its cohesion by reverting to a basic assumption of dependency, which depicts […]
Revolutionizing Hierarchy: How Community-Led Practices are Disrupting Line Management
Instead of self-management, Columbia Road, the digital sales agency based in Finland, replaces traditional hierarchy with community-led practices. What are these? Columbia Road, the Nordic digital sales agency with 150+ employees, describes itself as a flat-hierarchy organisation. Instead of self-management – which creates an image of endless individual freedom – they talk about community-led organizing. […]