Beyond Management Taking Charge at Work by Mark Addleson 5 docx

... their work the work of managing—without also organizing, because all the action at work Left-brain management and right-brain organizing 55 Facts Possibilities Interpretation Stories Meaning Relationships Stories Analysis Technology Data Structure Numbers Creativity Efficiency People Machines Cooperation Control Accountability “The ... conversation generates its own possibilities f...

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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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... what you can do to “flat- ten the organization.” What options do you have? The top and bottom are accounted for. Top management has to run the show and, at the bottom, workers have to do the work. ... 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 114 Bey...

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... of conversations 153 Illustrating the framework 155 What to do with the framework 156 Missing conversations 157 Conversations for openness 159 Conversations for commitments 161 Conversations for ... 1 15 11.1 Letting go! 139 11.2 A delicate balance 147 12.1 Three domains of conversation: a framework for organizing 155 15. 1 A pyramid-maze puzzle 206 x Beyond Management Taking C...

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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, ... about work or from what we pay atten- tion to. In Figure 5. 2, the text over the right brain is almost invisible, as a reminder that the work of organizing doesn’t co...

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