New Thoughts on Organisational Design with Henry Mintzberg

Recording from a Q & A Session with the leading voice in Organisational Design (OD), Henry Mintzberg, who provides a brief summary of his fifty years of researching organisations.
Interactive discussion of questions like:
- How do you rate the maturity/state of the practice of OD compared to other fields? And why are there so few books on OD?
- In reality organisations are all too often structured top-down by their managers and not really designed. What needs to be done to change that?
- Many people think of "Agile" when it comes to OD - has this paradigm taken over? Why? Why not?
- How can we combine the classical approaches to strategy with the enormous change rates in the ecosystem of our organisations.
- What does it need to design organisations for adaptability?

[@nextlevelchangeOE]

Thanks very much for hosting this session. A few things keep me thinking:
- Is adhocracy really the same as Agile??
- Is outward bound really the only major change in the last 30 years??
- Is there really such stable markets (such as the fast food market) that companies can stay in the Programmed Machine mode for ever??
Those questions help me to reflect and learn. Thanks !! Claus

[@gandirestrategica]

Excellent session, thank you!

[@johnmortimer3209]

Good to hear about the the folly of trying to impose design with organisations. Learning our way through org design and experimentation.
Moving away from the machine form…
Top down design, its easy, and it drives people crazy…
The structure could be emergent through earning…
Looking at different types of archetypes…
He mixed up Teal a bit, as he tried to relate it to his approach.

[@wolfganggobl3159]

Most industries will never move away from the programed machine. Why should they?
Teal is not superior to other forms