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Dee Rambeau's avatar

Great post Michael. Rampant in our corporate culture.

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Michael Woudenberg's avatar

Thanks. It feels like it IS our corporate culture and any deviation is abnormal!

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Rebecca Early's avatar

Can you explain what you mean by " it happens because we allow it" or point me to a post that discusses that?

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Michael Woudenberg's avatar

Great question. I might have to expand this into another post, but fundamentally it is the 'royal we' as in the organization. It's the 'we' who allow the incentives and allow the activity to continue.

A good post that pokes at this a bit is Direction, Energy, and Accountability. (see link below) This one looks at some common fallacies that occur in change managment that relate to this issue, specifically on accountability.

I've got an essay in development for next week on systems thinking where I sketch out a minimum framework to apply which consists of ensuring we look at the physical system, the logical system (processes fall in here) and the persona systems. I'll probably loop back to this topic in that layer and then tie back to pro-active accountability.

Thanks for the great question because now you've got me thinking of how to better clarify it!

https://polymathicbeing.substack.com/p/direction-energy-and-accountability

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