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30 Aug 09

informal coalitions: Self-organization and emergence: #2 – Organizational dynamics v organization design and development

The particular focus here is on the points I made in response to John Tropea’s interesting vision of what he calls a “role-based” organization. In this, individuals would have greater discretion to organize their own roles and relationships to suit their particular talents and interests

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Despite retaining these beliefs, I would not equate this approach with the idea of “self-organization” in the sense that I now talk about it
However, the critical thing to emphasize here is that it is the conversational interactions that are self-organizing. And it is through the self-organizing interplay of these ‘local’ conversations across the organization and beyond that ‘global’ outcomes emerge.
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- I argue similarly in my Unlocking Organizational Talent framework that there is a need for “boundary management”. As individuals develop along the four dimensions, a key focus for the manager/team leader is simultaneously to enable and constrain performance by seeking to ‘manage’ the boundaries within which team members are operating.
- To sum up, then, I see self-organization as a dynamic of all organizations, regardless of how these might be designed and managed from a formal standpoint. Outcomes emerge from this process - both locally and globally.

23 May 09

Twitter: A Marketer's Duct Tape

Third, and perhaps most importantly, it is very easy for people to join, and to self-organize around topics, companies, individuals, and events. In this sense it is an incredibly "democratic" medium — with all the control at the ends of the network. Our Diamond Fellow David Reed wrote in the Harvard Business Review many years ago about the power of self-forming networks, so potent because of their innate flexibility.

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04 Oct 08

Social Leverage Points :: Blog :: Headshift

It's an explanation - crystal clear, and from the point of view of systems theory - about what leverage points are, and how they can be used to influence systems. And it's a paper that should be compulsory reading for anyone in any kind of a position of power - and preferably tattooed on the inside of politicians' eyelids.

Reading through it, I got to wondering about which of the 12 leverage points described social media would fall into. The basic concept is that small shifts in one thing can produce big changes in everything - and we often use the terminology of small, incremental changes in behaviour when talking about social media.

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The point here is that the more rapid the feedback, the more effective at reducing oscillations.
Where social media fits in is surfacing that information. Very often, key information is buried, whether it's in emails, spreadsheets, report documents and so on.
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- Now we social media types have to be careful here - it's very easy to make grandiose claims about the ability of social tools to change the world, and the reality is that their effect is often less than we'd like them to be.
- Small-scale social tools - small pieces, loosely joined - can react far quicker and far more flexibly. Rather than trying to bend content into an organisational taxonomy, an emergent tagging structure will adapt to the material rather than the other way around.

05 Jun 08

informal coalitions: The “keep it simple” mantra and the complex dynamics of organizations

So, reducing the clutter of unnecessary or overly complicated structures, systems and procedures would certainly make organizations simpler. But the socially complex nature of the underlying dynamics of those organizations would remain

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