Dr.
Jan Schultz, The first one is
you could do a BMI test
of your organization.
So you could,
it's out there,
that survey is out there where you can calculate the bureaucratic
mass index
of your organization to actually get a
view for how bad is it and where is it
it's bad
and therefore also get a view for what are the hidden costs of
bureaucracy in your organization if it's there at all.
And the latest number I saw is that most managers
are spending up to 40 to 50 percent of their
time on bureaucratic or administrative tasks.
So potentially there could be one way that would be get a
number and get the facts right as to where should we act.
That could be one idea.
A second idea would be to run a management model hackathon.
So that would be instead of top down trying to
figure out what do we change in our management model,
invite the whole organization
to hack your management model.
Meaning,
crowd solve and ask
where do we have barriers that are holding us back from being
agile and then identify those barriers and then run low cost,
low cost,
low cost, low cost. And then run risk experiments
to get wiser and also of course as I mentioned in my first session,
learn from the vanguards.
Be curious as to what do post bureaucratic organizations actually do.
So that could be a second thing.
A third thing you could start doing is you could figure out
how do we build post bureaucratic leadership capabilities.
Try to be clearer on what is the mindset and what are the critical
capabilities that we need to capabilities
that we need to build into our leaders?
What is it that we need to de-armor or detox to
create this sensitivity for that your role as a leader
is different in a post bureaucratic organization.
The notion of formal power is losing its power and
the sensitivity for natural hierarchy is growing.
So everybody needs to learn how to lead and how to
follow and not least figure out when to do what.
That could be a third thing.
And the fourth thing you could do is you could,
what we call detox your change engine.
What we mean by that is 60% of white
collar workers' time is spent in projects.
And maybe 80-90% of all your change efforts
happens in projects.
So it's a fantastic lab if you want to detox your
organization to actually focus on your project factory.
And what very often happens is that we tend
to run the same kind of bureaucratic mindset.
I think Eric just exemplified with the stage gate.
We tend to just apply bureaucratic
leadership behavior onto our projects.
And we need a detox there.
And he had his favorite example with the stage gate meeting.
My favorite example of corporate theater
is the steering committee meeting,
which has a little bit the same.
Most big organizations,
people start to laugh when you mention it.
And the steering committee meetings.
Because you have people internally polishing a slide deck
to create the
situation where everybody feels that
we're in control and we're on the mark.
And everybody knows that it's not right.
So one area to focus on could be to detox your change engine.
So that could be kind of
four things that you could choose from to get started.