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Successful Managers See Their Organisation as a Beanbag

Successful managers see their organisation in a quite different from a Tower, more aligned to the view of a living system. Or what I call a Beanbag.

Beanbags are different from Towers.

1. Like a beanbag these organisations have porous, flexible walls; rather than the thick, impervious, solid walls of Tower-like organisations

2. Like a beanbag they fit exactly to their environment, no matter how much it changes; unlike the Tower which is slow to move

3. Like a beanbag the individuals inside are free to move far more easily to what ever shape their environment becomes, they can easily move to where they can add the most value to customers; unlike Towers where people are fixed in jobs and silos of power

4. Like a beanbag they a very stable and seldom fall over; unlike Towers which have had a poor record recently.

Characteristics of Bean bag - like

• Fit (to the environment)
• Focussed
• Fast
• Flexible
• Collaborative
• Stable
• Living
• Open.

THE MECHANICAL LEADS MANAGERS TO:

• Control
• Limit
• Engineer
• Drive
• Fill Jobs.

THE LIVING MODEL LEADS MANAGERS TO:

• Nurture
• Grow
• Tag & disturb
• Challenge
• Release human energy.

For a comparision with a silo...