the future of leadership. impulse by niels pflaeging at #next14 (berlin/d)
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The Future of Leadership Why Management is dispensable. How our organizations will become agile, radically decentralized, and truly networked. Sooner than you think. #NEXT14 - BerlinTRANSCRIPT
The Future of Leadership
Why Management is dispensable. How our organizations will become agile, radically decentralized, and truly networked. Sooner than you think.
#NEXT14 - Berlin Niels Pfläging @NielsPflaeging nielspflaeging.com
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Organizational Leadership: Do we really understand the challenge?
Management: *1911
Thinking
Doing
Thinkers (Managers)
Doers (Workers)
Management: *1911, ✝ca. 1970
A misguided metaphor
Thinking & Doing
Thinking & Doing
Peaches, not pyramids
Alive Systemic Integrated/integrating Work the work Outside-In Led
Dead Mechanical Divided, individualizing Work the people Top-down Managed
Industry
Retail
Services
Governments & NGOs
It is possible
Pioneering phase
Differentiation phase
Integration phase
We have a choice.
Vortrag: Niels Pfläging
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Control of work hours Job Descriptions
Competencies Management
Incentives
Individual targets
Performance Appraisal/360°
Salary ranges
Training budgets Personnel Development
Org charts
Target negotiation
”Personnel Expenses“
Suggestion boxes
Assessment Centers
Knowledge Management
Pay for Performance
Paid extra hours
Bonuses
Quotas
Matrix structures
Job titles HR
Cost management Budgeting Strategic planning
Process management
Development Centers
Balanced Scorecards
Plan/Actuals reporting
Key Accounting Dress codes
Project management
Travel policies
Beta
Alpha
Fixed, individual targets Management by Objectives Budgets and Plans Performance Appraisal Hierarchical Pressure Pay by Position and/or Performance Incentives and Bonuses …
Transparency & Improvement Comparisons between peers Comparisons with previous periods Dialog and Dissent Social and group pressure Pay by market value Results Sharing …
Alpha
Law Beta Alpha §1 Freedom to act Connectedness not Dependency §2 Responsibility Cells not Departments §3 Governance Leadership not Management §4 Performance climate Result culture not Duty fulfillment §5 Success Fit not Maximization §6 Transparency Intelligence flow not Power accumulation §7 Orientation Relative Targets not Top-down prescription §8 Recognition Sharing not Incentives §9 Mental presence Preparedness not Planning §10 Decision-making Consequence not Bureaucracy §11 Resource usage Purpose-driven not Status-oriented §12 Coordination Market dynamics not Commands
How about reinventing work and organizations entirely – for this century?
@NielsPflaeging
nielspflaeging.com betacodex.org
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