Building High-Performance, High-Trust Organizations :
[Book]
Decentralization 2.0
by Gerrit Broekstra.
London
Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan
2014
(225 pages)
Palgrave Macmillan memory studies.
Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgements; Prologue; 1 Complexity is a consequence of living in a sandpile world; 2 Only variety absorbs complexity; 3 Top-down decentralization and the folly of power First story: The Pennsylvania Railroad Company; 4 Going against the grain: aborted bottom-up decentralization Second story: The Durham coal miners; 5 Common-sense decentralization by working with human nature-not against it Third story: Svenska Handelsbanken; 6 Deep leadership provides the social glue keeping high-variety organizations together; Epilogue; Index.
Some vanguard companies have evolved to a higher level of decentralization originating in the enabling-and-autonomy paradigm. A new kind of deep leadership is practiced by these spirit-driven organizations. This book brings together theory and case studies to cover historical origins and developments of both types of decentralization.