The Future of Leadership Why Management is dispensable. How our organizations will become agile, radically decentralized, and truly networked. Sooner than you think. #NEXT14 - Berlin

1. The Future of Leadership
Why Management is dispensable.
How our organizations will become agile, radically decentralized,
and truly networked. Sooner than you think.
#NEXT14 - Berlin
Niels Pfläging @NielsPflaeging nielspflaeging.com
betacodex.org

2. Organizational Leadership:
Do we really understand the challenge?

4. Management: *1911

8. Thinking
Doing

9. Thinkers (Managers)
Doers (Workers)

15. Management: *1911, ✝ca. 1970

16. A misguided
metaphor

17.
Thinking
& Doing
Thinking
& Doing
Peaches,
not
pyramids

19. Alive
Systemic
Integrated/integrating
Work the work
Outside-In
Led
Dead
Mechanical
Divided, individualizing
Work the people
Top-down
Managed

28. Industry
Retail
Services
Governments
& NGOs
It is possible

29. Pioneering
phase
Differentiation
phase
Integration
phase

30. We have a choice.

31. Vortrag: Niels Pfläging
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Control of work hours
Job Descriptions
Competencies Management
Incentives
Individual targets
Performance Appraisal/360°
Salary ranges
Training budgets
Personnel Development
Org charts
Target negotiation
”Personnel Expenses“
Suggestion boxes
Assessment Centers
Knowledge Management
Pay for Performance
Paid extra hours
Bonuses
Quotas
Matrix structures
Job titlesHR
Cost management
Budgeting Strategic planning
Process management
Development Center
Balanced Scorecards
Plan/Actuals reporting
Key Accounting
Dress codes
Project management
Travel policies

32. Beta
Alpha
Fixed, individual targets
Management by Objectives
Budgets and Plans
Performance Appraisal
Hierarchical Pressure
Pay by Position and/or Performance
Incentives and Bonuses
…
Transparency & Improvement
Comparisons between peers
Comparisons with previous periods
Dialog and Dissent
Social and group pressure
Pay by market value
Results Sharing
…
Alpha

37. Law Beta Alpha
§1 Freedom to act Connectedness not Dependency
§2 Responsibility Cells not Departments
§3 Governance Leadership not Management
§4 Performance climate Result culture not Duty fulfillment
§5 Success Fit not Maximization
§6 Transparency Intelligence flow not Power accumulation
§7 Orientation Relative Targets not Top-down prescription
§8 Recognition Sharing not Incentives
§9 Mental presence Preparedness not Planning
§10 Decision-making Consequence not Bureaucracy
§11 Resource usage Purpose-driven not Status-oriented
§12 Coordination Market dynamics not Commands

38. How about reinventing work and organizations
entirely – for this century?
@NielsPflaeging
nielspflaeging.com
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