This is the organizational challenge for the next years: moving from hierarchical controlled entities to more self-organized teams. This is an educational challenge. How to convince, to motivate, to explain. I use a specific metaphor to explain this shift. When roads cross, you can assign a traffic policeman to direct the traffic. You can also …
If you want to have a self-managed team (and you really want that), you need to agree on the means of the project, the rules of engagement. One set of rules for everyone. Everyone should know the same set of rules… Humans … have “rules” about how we do things “around here”. It is not …
Ants don’t need central control to get the work coordinated. They use a simple and effective way to communicate and make individual decisions based upon the information. Ants are hardwired to work like this. Nature provided them all with the same set of rules in their body. Every leg has a natural tattoo describing how …