A personal mission in my work is disrupting ineffective top-down hierarchical decision-making. This means targeting gratuitous power dynamics in organizations and actively working to undermine and reverse them. I'm sorry (not actually) for the pain this might cause.
I believe we significantly underutilize the intelligence, knowledge, and passion of our people and underestimate their potential. My goal is generally to create space for people at lower levels of organizations to influence and make more decisions about their work.
I'm feeling a stream of consciousness twitter rant coming on. Ruminating about bureaucracy, culture, innovation, organizational change, and such things. Putting it out there because I'm wondering if other people are thinking these things or if I'm losing my mind. 1/
There's something that happens in large bureaucracies that's hard to pin down. There's this strong inertia that almost feels sometimes like a weight on my chest. It seems to relate to what we like to call culture, risk aversion and some other fun names. 2/
