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13 May 08

Leadership's Online Labs

  • Leadership’s Online Labs


    Tens of millions of people are honing their
    leadership skills in multiplayer online games. The tools and techniques they’re
    using will change how leaders function tomorrow—and could make them more
    effective today.

13 Jun 07

We-think: The power of mass creativity - Charles Leadbeater

  • participation will be the key organising idea rather than consumption and work.
24 Apr 07

Coordination

  • There are three basic coordinating mechanisms: mutual
    adjustment, direct supervision, and standardization

  • Mutual Adjustment



    This mechanism is based on the simple process of informal
    communication. It is used in very small companies, such as a
    5-person software shop, or for very, very complicated tasks, such
    as putting the first person on the moon. Mutual adjustment is the
    same mechanism used by furniture movers to maneuver through a
    house, or paddlers to take a canoe downriver, or jazz musicians
    playing a live engagement. It's especially useful when nobody
    really knows ahead of time how to do what they're doing.

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Mintzberg and Van der Heyden 1999

  • The hub
    serves as a central checkpoint, or coordinating center, for all process
    activities. This is the point
    through which “people, things [and] information move.”
  • Another newer type
    of organigraph is the web. In a web
    structure, the company has several “nodes” that all communicate with each
    other, without going through a central coordinator. Webs allow for “open-ended communication and continuous movement of
    people and ideas.” There is no
    single manager for a web. Rather,
    all individuals may act in a management capacity. “Managers have to be everywhere.” Management structure may be loose or undefined.

Mintzberg\'s Taxonomy of Organizational Forms

  • In adhocracy, we have highly organic structure, with little formalization
    of behavior; job specialization based on formal training; a tendency to
    group the specialists in functional units for housekeeping purposes but
    to deploy them in small, market-based project teams to do their work; a
    reliance on liaison devices to encourage mutual adjustment, the key coordinating
    mechanism, within and between these teams.
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