Understanding self-organization: the power of self-organization 1

Introduction

People often believe that the best team is usually composed of the best individual. The company is a strong practitioner of this Article. They are committed to choosing better individuals and believe that the increase in average personal competence will bring about an improvement in organizational performance. Is that correct?

 

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Body

"Self-organization" has become a frequently used word in management innovation, organizational transformation, and agile implementation. However, most people do not really understand self-organization. Their understanding comes from the literal meaning. Self-organization is self-management, and self-organizing teams are a group of people who can manage themselves. This article is one of the articles on Understanding self-organization. It aims to help more people understand what self-organization is.

 

A car is passing through a crossroads, and the parking icon on the American highway is on the right hand side. There are parking marks at many intersections in the United States. No matter when the vehicle passes by, the vehicle must stop before the parking mark, and the vehicle can pass through after observation. This is incredible in the eyes of most Chinese drivers. Isn't everyone's speed even slower? It seems that Americans are much less efficient than us. However, we were used to driving in the United States using red light, random lane change, congestion, and congestion emergency lanes in pursuit of individual and efficient Chinese-style driving, the speed is 70-80 kilometers per hour, so there is no need to worry about accidents.

 

The same story also appears in other fields. The best club football team is better than the world's most expensive football team. Xiaomi Jia *** defeated the aircraft and artillery.

 

Why is this happening? Isn't the efficiency of each individual ultimately results in the efficiency of the entire group? Isn't the inefficiency of each individual ultimately resulting in inefficiency of the entire group? Suddenly there was a sense of destruction of the three views, were there?

 

The story above demonstrates the two main features of self-organization. 1) emerging: self-organized organizations will have some unexpected features, such as personal efficiency, which will eventually be reflected in the inefficiency of the Organization; 2) the whole is greater than the sum of the parts: another emerging saying is that a group formed by individual self-organization has distinct characteristics from an individual. For example, the efficiency of individual features becomes the inefficiency of organizational characteristics. Let's continue to destroy the three ideas. Please try to think and answer the following questions: 1) Think about China's Confucianism, where everyone is a good teacher, and the world will become even better? 2) Why is "Governance of large countries like cooking fresh food" totally nonsense? 3) is high resource utilization efficient for the organization? 4) A group composed of absolutely selfish individuals can derive real collaboration, while advocating that everyone is a public group brings more intrigue. Why? 5) as the saying goes, what is the solution for one Chinese man and three Chinese people?

 

At the same time, we will find that the power of rules is beyond our imagination. From the above story, we can see that the Organization's operational efficiency will be significantly different only by slightly changing the operating rules of the system. Extended thinking: 1) which rules can be changed can bring huge changes to our Organization, and can we predict the changes? 2) is scrum and other agile software R & D methods so powerful that they have changed the running rules of the team? Does agile Implementation fail because it only changes the process but fails to change the rules? 3) What is the difference between the rules here and the rules we usually call? 4) is the difference between lean panel and other methods focused on rule changes?

 

Postscript

Trying to understand self-organization is a process of destroying the three views. If you can read this article, it shows you have the potential to destroy the three views. Congratulations!

You can learn two books: "complexity" and "out of control".

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