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gold's avatar

Power. And stress. And survivor syndrome.

For every valuable thing we’ve learned about organizations, how distributed empowerment benefits that which is created and how culture and sustainability win the day, we are always one (bad) day away from old-style command and control dynamics (though likely minus the red-facedness, Marlboros and polyester).

Predictability is demanded but rarely provided and asymmetry reigns.

Ah well. More to work on.

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Rodrigo Sperb's avatar

One of the reasons I am drawn to Toyota ways of working is exactly that mentality of what matters at the end is the global result, not how good I am in my little station of work... The current obsession with (small) teams in Agile that can do pretty much whatever they want to, seems to be at least in contradiction to that. So to me is easy to answer that question towards the end - I prefer the "one company".

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