Getting Started: first steps
- How can I prepare for pursuing this change?
- How do you deal with cynics and cynicism?
- How can we consider how patriarchal our organisation is?
- How do I negotiate more freedom from my boss?
- How can we give employees more control of their own jobs?
- What should we be cautious of as we pursue this kind of change?
Common Concerns: reasons for hope
- Do large organisations still matter today and, if so, why?
- Can we really removing hierarchy without causing chaos?
- Why should I believe that a new way of working will succeed?
- Can employees manage themselves?
- Don't people like being told what to do and how to do it?
- If I give my employees more freedom, won’t they just take advantage?
Foundation Thinking: a better philosophy
- Why change now?
- What are the five key elements of partnership?
- What holds people back from choosing freedom when they're offered it?
- What is the difference between a community and a bureaucracy?
- What is the difference between a complex and a complicated system?
- Underlying Assumptions: what's different going forward?
Naming The Problem: seeing the status quo
- Where has hierarchy gone wrong?
- Why is the status quo not up to the 21st Century challenge?
- What has been the outcome of our addiction to hierarchy?
- What is the current management model?
- What is the "status quo" organisation?
- Which underlying beliefs are preventing organisations from thriving today?
Resources & Definitions: a helping hand
- What personal bio resources do you have for John Featherby?
- What is a framework or "change model" to help support a way forward?
- What are some good resources (books) covering the theory of change with a range of case studies?
- What are some good resources (books) covering a single case study?
- What are some good resources (books) that cover particular topics within 21st Century Org thinking?
- What is "personal mastery"?