I'm neither a coach nor involved in a business or organisation, but this all seems very obvious to me and what healthy groupings of people do all the time. But I of course notice that those in official leadership positions can struggle to operate like this, I think because we are ingrained with feelings of insecurity that lead us to think we need to control the world around us. Which also leads us to be happy others are doing the controlling for us, and the consequent messes this gets humanity into when we stop taking responsibility for ourselves.
Hi Helen, thanks for commenting. The apparent tension you give is the crucial point. In any healthy system this would happen, but many organisations are not healthy systems and indeed are set up that way. I think a good part of it is insecurity on the part of leaders who don't want things happening outside their control.
Thanks for this.
I'm neither a coach nor involved in a business or organisation, but this all seems very obvious to me and what healthy groupings of people do all the time. But I of course notice that those in official leadership positions can struggle to operate like this, I think because we are ingrained with feelings of insecurity that lead us to think we need to control the world around us. Which also leads us to be happy others are doing the controlling for us, and the consequent messes this gets humanity into when we stop taking responsibility for ourselves.
Hi Helen, thanks for commenting. The apparent tension you give is the crucial point. In any healthy system this would happen, but many organisations are not healthy systems and indeed are set up that way. I think a good part of it is insecurity on the part of leaders who don't want things happening outside their control.