Beyond Management Taking Charge at Work by Mark Addleson 4 pot

... brainstorming, and strategizing. The heart and structure of project work is networks of conversations. 34 Beyond Management Here is a paradox for me: we have all the pieces that management experts ... conversation generates its own possibilities for action. Opportu- nities that weren’t there are created by the conversation, in the con- versation, with each conversation generating...

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... and what they can do. Then, the sense of what they’ll do—their work emerges, bit by bit, conversation by conversation. Usually, as this happens, a network grows along with their conversations. “I’ll ... groups–they work with. But, which others? Is it management, meaning everyone who is a manager, or is it specific managers? Has the strategic reorg, initiated by management, created...

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... investigated the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon that took place in September 2001 found that security and intelligence organizations (of which there are a great 1 14 Beyond Management matter ... relationships. As Bell and Flores put it, “The ingredients of work are the questions and commitments and possibilities that bring things forth.” 24 1 04 Beyond Managem...

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... puzzle 206 x Beyond Management Taking Charge at Work Mark Addleson viii Contents Relationships and accountability 140 Talking the talk 142 Cultivating a new narrative is tough 144 New language ... work 38 Jeff’s cloud theory 38 The connections matter 40 Part 3: structure in organizing 42 Organizing = effort + magic 42 Work emerges 43 Self-organizing 43 Networks...

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... and practicing management you don’t know what you don’t know about work or organizing it. Going “inside” work Looking at work through a management lens today, what you see are the six Ds: documentation, data, ... in the work. With factory- work, the difference isn’t that significant. You can get a good sense of what people are doing by watching them, which is what supervisors...

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... 6 Knowledge -work in close-up What is knowledge -work? It may be one of the great paradoxes of work life that we spend so much time at work but have so little to say about the nature of work. In business books, ... a frank conversation and there may be a general 64 Beyond Management Notice that my definition doesn’t refer to categories of work or work- ers, but to practices...

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