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Followership: What We Can Do to Protect Ourselves from Pseudo-Leaders
Can we reduce our dependence on leadership by developing our followership in such a way that we can take the best from partnerships with exceptional individuals while avoiding mediocre ones capturing our social, work and political lives?
7 funciones clave para desarrollar organizaciones viables y adaptables. La organización sistémica.
Las organizaciones están en un proceso constante de cambio. Para producir valor al tiempo que estas absorben los cambios del entorno y se adaptan, necesitan 7 funciones clave interconectadas que les permitirán operar de forma efectiva y mientras mantienen la cohesión del sistema social que las forman.
Organisations designed for control, conformity and performance efficiency
Organizations function as societal structuring mechanisms, managing human activity and resource distribution. While these systems enabled social complexity, they're shaped by those controlling key resources. Since the 1990s, globalization has led to tech giants' dominance, challenging governmental authority and establishing surveillance as the norm in organizational-individual relationships. To maximize efficiency, organizations manage human resources through conformist culture, strict performance standards, and reduced autonomy, despite humans' capacity for resistance. Growing polarization has shifted decision-making power to systems that view people primarily as capital-generating resources, leading to what Yanis Varoufakis calls "Techno-feudalism."
From leadership to collective leading functions
The idea of a leader with exceptional qualities to create a vision that inspires others to work together, with excellent strategic and decision-making skills, and being aware and resilient sounds like a superhero character more than a real person.