Following up on a previous blog post, here’s another fun quote from Fredric Laloux’s intriguing book Reinventing Organizations:
“Chaos will ensue, which is what you hope for.”
To put that line in context, he’s writing about the creative chaos that is generally necessary when we transition away from a top-down, command-and-control style of organizational management and towards a style that relies more on self-management, shared leadership, autonomy, and trust.
Yup, a shift like that means chaos will ensue for a while. If it doesn’t, then we haven’t really let go of the outdated approach to power and control. We haven’t make the shift.
The key is to see the creative energy that comes with the chaos. To see that what feels at first like chaos is actually a healthy transition to a more mature mode of collaboration.