Part II 1

Is an
organisation
spherical or
pyramidical?
That’s where the
essence of the
question lies!
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Can you smell the first Archetype?
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Why does a conflicts arise? Why so hard to
make changes inside of organisation?
• Many would agree that a coded conflict is hidden within
the structure of a modern organisation:
• between directors and employees
• between managers and subordinates
• between functional departments
• between an individual and a team
• between different colleagues and so forth.
• My hypothesis is simple – the greater part of conflicts
arise due to a pyramidical outlook and Social Darwinism, a
philosophy which professes that only the best-adapted
individuals survive in a competitive battle. This poses a
question and an issue. How can we shake free of conflicts
which have become instilled in a pyramidical viewpoint and
develop a harmonious, energetic and self- improving
organisation?
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Drawing of an organisation and reality
• It has so happened that people comprehend
their organisation in terms of a structural
outline. Regardless of what it might be – an
international financial corporation, a golf club
association or a club of Sunday school
principals – the structural blueprint of an
organisation reflects its management. The
structural chart describes functions, delineates
the limits of responsibility and establishes
subordination.
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Organisational structure for Clones?
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All organisations, whether large or small,
governmental or private or scientific or religious, have
identical visions about their structures.
The organisational structure is generally drawn from the top down.
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Finally, when tracing the structure drawn on a
piece of paper, we always get the same figure.
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This is – the triangle.
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The triangle
becomes a
managerial
pyramid in
three-
dimensional
space.
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The pyramidical structure existed in ancient Egypt
seven thousand years ago.
On top God - Pharaoh, and down....
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All our plans are disrupted by the fourth
measurement – time!
• Albert Einstein proved the
existence of a fourth
measurement – time.
Specifically time distorts
the other three measures of
space – length, width and
height.
• The thing is that
unevaluated time always
disturbs our plans.
• To where did the
measure of time or its
equivalent vanish from the
organisations of these
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days?

Just three thousand
years ago, the Greek God,
Chronus, was the
personification of time. In
the mosaics of Greek-
Roman times, this
creature was depicted as
the zodiac wheel. The
triangle, at that time, was
pictured within a circle, a
visualisation of what later
became, as Einstein
named, “the four-
dimensional space-time
continuum”.
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The Greeks introduce the hierarchy of
the gods, but in the same time, they
create a democracy
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But Pythagorus
(500 BC) did a very
huge impact on
western thinking. He
thought that our
universe can only be
made of triangles,
because that was the
most stable structure
possible. From that
moment on, the
symbol of the triangle
overwhelmed that of
the circle in Western
culture.
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In Western culture the
measurement of time
transferred into the clock.
It became an attribute of
every town centre.
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A Greek also introduced the concept of hierarchy.
Approximately 1500 years ago, Areopagite raised the
concept which, translated into our language, would mean,
“Rule based on holiness”. He argued that this heavenly
system has precisely nine levels.
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The question
for consideration
and verification
is: how many
levels does your
organisation
have?
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The pyramid and hierarchy reinforce an illusion
that some one person can become almighty and
all-knowing.
The Earth is the
centre of the
universe - the first
managerial belief
which conflicts
with the sciences,
one which was
especially carefully
defended.
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The human is the centre of the world.
Naturally, once the earth became the centre of
the universe, the next step was also taken – man
is the ruler of the earth and the centre of the
world. This is a road back toward the idea of the
Egyptians that a human can be compared to a
god. Such an idea formed an egocentric outlook
for a long time, one which gained a firm foothold
in the culture of the United States in the
semblance of individual saviours of mankind.
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The ideas of C. Darwin, that natural selection gives rise to the best was especially
suitable to the philosophy of a pyramidical-hierarchical management for organisations.
An opinion took hold that, to best manage a company, each individual must be effectively
exploited (the person must not stand idle), and competition must be generated between
individuals for the “best” to rise to the top.
The human being became entrenched as a unit at the base of a
pyramid, in other words, one of its bricks. What do you want from
the bricks - flexibility, changes?
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Can you see the next Archetype?
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Each individual must be effectively
exploited (the person must not stand idle),
and competition must be generated
between individuals for the “best” to rise to
the top.
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You can order a book,
or consultancy, or
lecture, or just a
dream at:
+370 698 41 027
Darius Radkevi!ius
darius@stockm.eu
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