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MANAGERIAL ILLUSIONS
By Marina Capizzi, author of Hierarchy to Die or to Thrive? Companies have been cultivating rationality and efficiency since the industrial revolution, when the ‘science of management’ was born. After more than a century, therefore, management thinking should revolve...
Listening is the breath of the organization
I have known U-Theory for several years, and when the situations and projects I manage allow it, I use it very willingly because it is a powerful and effective tool that helps people and organizations to develop by looking with more awareness towards the future....
Processes that release talents and skills
What can happen if one decides to adopt Holacracy, the most structured alternative to the pyramid, that distributes authority across all Roles? The Eco-Counter experience. L’IMPRESA, N°4, 2018, GRUPPO24ORE Enrico Durbano, aged 41 and born in Saluzzo, was the General...
Holacracy: turning purpose into system
Beyond the pyramid L’IMPRESA, N°3, 2018, GRUPPO24ORE Companies are beginning to sense that the pyramidal structure no longer works, but they don’t yet know what the alternative might be. Meanwhile, models are being tested out and experience is being garnered. We...
When the purpose is the supporting structure of governance The world of ThoughtWorks
The power of evolutionary purpose can be the main element of governance. How does it work when this happens Let's find out together, exploring the world of ThoughtWorks. L’IMPRESA, N°2, 2018, GRUPPO24ORE Sara Michelazzo, 32, enters the ThoughtWorks offices in...
The mission of the corporate machine and the energy of living organisms
Marina Capizzi, L'impresa N°11-2017 Laloux-- taking a cue from Brian Robertson-- observes in his book “Reinventing organisations” that if we tried to ride a bicycle in the same manner as we try to manage our companies today, it would look something like this: we would...