#orgdesign — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #orgdesign, aggregated by home.social.
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New blog post:
This article has been brewing for years, and it was not really until I dug into the organisational dysfunctions that the importance of values and ideals became apparent. Training as a natural scientist, and years of practising software engineering, primed me to look at the laws that govern how systems behave, then predict from them. So when I first read Fred Emery on organisations, one word baffled me completely. Ideals.
Not values. Ideals. Homonomy, nurturance, humanity, beauty. It read like something out of a self-help book, the kind of soft, unfalsifiable language a physicist is trained to distrust. It took me a long time to see what he actually meant.
These are not aspirations bolted onto a structure for morale. They are structurally necessary, the thing that lets people with radically different values still cooperate when the ground itself keeps shifting.
And the mechanism underneath it is not soft at all. It comes straight from 1950s biology, a concept called directive correlation, the same theory of active adaptation used to explain how living systems shape their environment instead of just reacting to it.
I spent a long time not seeing why any of this mattered. This week I think I finally got it.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/map-nobody-knows-trond-hjorteland-8roxe
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New blog post:
This article has been brewing for years, and it was not really until I dug into the organisational dysfunctions that the importance of values and ideals became apparent. Training as a natural scientist, and years of practising software engineering, primed me to look at the laws that govern how systems behave, then predict from them. So when I first read Fred Emery on organisations, one word baffled me completely. Ideals.
Not values. Ideals. Homonomy, nurturance, humanity, beauty. It read like something out of a self-help book, the kind of soft, unfalsifiable language a physicist is trained to distrust. It took me a long time to see what he actually meant.
These are not aspirations bolted onto a structure for morale. They are structurally necessary, the thing that lets people with radically different values still cooperate when the ground itself keeps shifting.
And the mechanism underneath it is not soft at all. It comes straight from 1950s biology, a concept called directive correlation, the same theory of active adaptation used to explain how living systems shape their environment instead of just reacting to it.
I spent a long time not seeing why any of this mattered. This week I think I finally got it.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/map-nobody-knows-trond-hjorteland-8roxe
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New blog post:
This article has been brewing for years, and it was not really until I dug into the organisational dysfunctions that the importance of values and ideals became apparent. Training as a natural scientist, and years of practising software engineering, primed me to look at the laws that govern how systems behave, then predict from them. So when I first read Fred Emery on organisations, one word baffled me completely. Ideals.
Not values. Ideals. Homonomy, nurturance, humanity, beauty. It read like something out of a self-help book, the kind of soft, unfalsifiable language a physicist is trained to distrust. It took me a long time to see what he actually meant.
These are not aspirations bolted onto a structure for morale. They are structurally necessary, the thing that lets people with radically different values still cooperate when the ground itself keeps shifting.
And the mechanism underneath it is not soft at all. It comes straight from 1950s biology, a concept called directive correlation, the same theory of active adaptation used to explain how living systems shape their environment instead of just reacting to it.
I spent a long time not seeing why any of this mattered. This week I think I finally got it.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/map-nobody-knows-trond-hjorteland-8roxe
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New blog post:
This article has been brewing for years, and it was not really until I dug into the organisational dysfunctions that the importance of values and ideals became apparent. Training as a natural scientist, and years of practising software engineering, primed me to look at the laws that govern how systems behave, then predict from them. So when I first read Fred Emery on organisations, one word baffled me completely. Ideals.
Not values. Ideals. Homonomy, nurturance, humanity, beauty. It read like something out of a self-help book, the kind of soft, unfalsifiable language a physicist is trained to distrust. It took me a long time to see what he actually meant.
These are not aspirations bolted onto a structure for morale. They are structurally necessary, the thing that lets people with radically different values still cooperate when the ground itself keeps shifting.
And the mechanism underneath it is not soft at all. It comes straight from 1950s biology, a concept called directive correlation, the same theory of active adaptation used to explain how living systems shape their environment instead of just reacting to it.
I spent a long time not seeing why any of this mattered. This week I think I finally got it.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/map-nobody-knows-trond-hjorteland-8roxe
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New blog post:
This article has been brewing for years, and it was not really until I dug into the organisational dysfunctions that the importance of values and ideals became apparent. Training as a natural scientist, and years of practising software engineering, primed me to look at the laws that govern how systems behave, then predict from them. So when I first read Fred Emery on organisations, one word baffled me completely. Ideals.
Not values. Ideals. Homonomy, nurturance, humanity, beauty. It read like something out of a self-help book, the kind of soft, unfalsifiable language a physicist is trained to distrust. It took me a long time to see what he actually meant.
These are not aspirations bolted onto a structure for morale. They are structurally necessary, the thing that lets people with radically different values still cooperate when the ground itself keeps shifting.
And the mechanism underneath it is not soft at all. It comes straight from 1950s biology, a concept called directive correlation, the same theory of active adaptation used to explain how living systems shape their environment instead of just reacting to it.
I spent a long time not seeing why any of this mattered. This week I think I finally got it.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/map-nobody-knows-trond-hjorteland-8roxe