Comments on: Design This! http://notanmba.com/blog/2008/05/design-this taking the stupid out of business Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:21:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Andrew http://notanmba.com/blog/2008/05/design-this#comment-3045 Andrew Wed, 21 May 2008 16:51:19 +0000 http://notanmba.com/blog/2008/05/design-this#comment-3045 You know Sally Bibb, don't you? Have you talked to her about the research they've done at talentsmoothie on Gen Y at work? You know Sally Bibb, don’t you? Have you talked to her about the research they’ve done at talentsmoothie on Gen Y at work?

]]> By: Andrew http://notanmba.com/blog/2008/05/design-this#comment-3025 Andrew Tue, 20 May 2008 22:02:17 +0000 http://notanmba.com/blog/2008/05/design-this#comment-3025 Great to hear from you! Of course, most things are in flux, and corporate orgs are no exception. Perhaps there will be cycles, where chaos eventually gets inscribed in a new generation of Org Charts, which are reified for a generation...Till another cultural revolution says..'what a load of shit that was.' And the whole thing starts over. I think, at the least, we are in a 'starting over period' right now. At least here in the US. As we are documenting in our next book, 'Manage This!', a whole generation of Millennials isn't even bothering with the old school approaches. They are too smart, too busy, and making too much money to be bothered. That said, architects will have a new (and fascinating) challenge in building for this. I suspect (and I am often wrong) that those architects will be old guys like me trying to build for the busy, who will come and go and not necessarily pay much attention to the 'organizers.' Great to hear from you! Of course, most things are in flux, and corporate orgs are no exception. Perhaps there will be cycles, where chaos eventually gets inscribed in a new generation of Org Charts, which are reified for a generation…Till another cultural revolution says..’what a load of shit that was.’ And the whole thing starts over. I think, at the least, we are in a ’starting over period’ right now. At least here in the US.

As we are documenting in our next book, ‘Manage This!’, a whole generation of Millennials isn’t even bothering with the old school approaches. They are too smart, too busy, and making too much money to be bothered. That said, architects will have a new (and fascinating) challenge in building for this. I suspect (and I am often wrong) that those architects will be old guys like me trying to build for the busy, who will come and go and not necessarily pay much attention to the ‘organizers.’

]]> By: Andrew http://notanmba.com/blog/2008/05/design-this#comment-3024 Andrew Tue, 20 May 2008 21:51:30 +0000 http://notanmba.com/blog/2008/05/design-this#comment-3024 ooh, I'm with you nearly all the way. I want to add a mention of a recent HBR article (it's at harvardbusiness.org Article #R0805) that says, amongst much else: "Even more provocative was our finding that successful leadership in online games has less to do with the attributes of individual leaders than with the game environment, as created by the developer and enhanced by the gamers themselves." Ecosystemic thinking comes to Harvard. But then I got to your last paragraph. Can't we design the undesignable? I wondered. Architects are going to have to design and build the buildings that house these organisations of the future. But then I think you're saying that organisation design could become an emergent property of simply being an organisation. I like that. Nice blog. ooh, I’m with you nearly all the way.

I want to add a mention of a recent HBR article (it’s at harvardbusiness.org Article #R0805) that says, amongst much else:

“Even more provocative was our finding that successful leadership in online games has less to do with the attributes of individual leaders than with the game environment, as created by the developer and enhanced by the gamers themselves.” Ecosystemic thinking comes to Harvard.

But then I got to your last paragraph. Can’t we design the undesignable? I wondered. Architects are going to have to design and build the buildings that house these organisations of the future. But then I think you’re saying that organisation design could become an emergent property of simply being an organisation. I like that.

Nice blog.

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