Sociocracy Archive - agile Companies

Agile organization 21. March 2021

Sustainability of companies? Sociocracy, Holacracy or Democracy?

Sociocracy, democracy and holacracy are currently on everyone’s lips. According to some media and journal papers, the three concepts are intended to represent the future of companies and could represent the next form of Company evolution after Laloux represent. However, it is not clear which one will really prevail and whether one will prevail at all. Below we will explain the advantages and disadvantages of all three models. The sociocratic enterprise and sociocracy Sociocracy (Latin: socius: companion and kratein: to govern) assumes that all parties involved are the same when it comes to managing decisions in a company. A decision is made as soon as there is no longer any serious counter-argument. The method therefore requires self-motivation, a cooperative togetherness and personal responsibility. In accordance with the Management Y principle, it also aims to ensure that employees “feel good” and therefore strive for self-realization in the company. Management X means…

Digital change 21. March 2021

Complexity in management, agility and digital transformation

Management complexity has been around since digital transformation brought back into focus. How can companies deal with the increasing complexity and dynamism of markets? How can modern leadership and structure be established in companies and how can we reduce complexity with the help of special methods. According to the author Niels Pfläging, corporate structures should be just as lively as markets. But what does he mean exactly and how is complexity reduced in practice? Why is there complexity in management Why did it get so complex? What were the triggers and why wasn’t it like that “earlier”? For this I found the picture above. It seems that this dynamic has only slowly increased since 1970 and has peaked again in the past few years. The reasons for the high density and the increase in competition appear understandable. In addition, many authors mention the digital transformation, Industry 4.0 and Big data…

Agile organization 21. March 2021

Management Y and sociocracy

More quickly! More quickly! More quickly! The world is turning faster and faster. Doesn’t that seem like that to you too? More and more projects and emails have to be processed every day and all of this in parallel. According to many authors, there is a clear problem here between external and internal requirements of the company. According to Brandes et al. the concept of sociocracy. What this means, I already have in explained another article. From this framework, the authors Brandes et al. the framework “Management Y”. More humanity in management According to the authors, successful organizations display a mature and humane culture. A paradigm shift from management X to management Y is taking place. Management Y serves the employee. People are not lazy, they are ready to make good contributions to something big. Living Management Y fundamentally changes our image of man from authority to serving management. Brandes…