Gymnastic and humanistic

I am a huge fan of Gary Hamel. His new book is a follow-on from “What matters now”. “Humanocracy” is an indictment of how much businesses are still operating as bureaucracies and frankly are no longer fit for purpose. Command and control do not work as the pace of change has gone hypercritical. It is simply too slow and does not utilise your most important resource, which are your people.

Purpose and passion

Bureaucracy has been with us since long before the Industrial Revolution, all the way back to the “command and control” leadership of the Roman Empire. Job description, lines and boxes. But this approach is not up for our future challenges. We need to embrace instead a human-centric approach, rooted in trust. You can’t order or command trust. You have to earn it. And by embracing humanocracy, we can embrace the purpose and passion that makes profits and projects possible.

The business case against is bureaucracy is compelling

• The bureaucratic class comprised 26.9 million individuals or 18.4% of the US workforce.
• This group claimed more than $3.2 trillion in compensation or nearly a third of America’s total wage bill.
• 119 million non-managerial employees are spending an average of 16% of their time on internal bureaucratic tasks — this equates to an additional 19 million…