Effort shock is detail shock is reality shock. Many things that seem like they’d be really cool to have done turn out to require way more effort, patiently wrangling more way detail than you realized was involved, than you’re willing to invest.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1289586376887824384 …
I think it was good for the 70s when Greenleaf articulated it, but kinda cringe and ineffective now
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Your aspirational model of managers growing is good, but my cynical view is that the number of people both capable of it and interested in it is like 0.1% of the number of managerial roles. Which means the solution is actually to figure out ways of organizing without managers.
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That’s a story I’d be very interested to hear you tell.
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greenleaf was from an era marked by a) highly protectionist/regulated economies b) coming off the conglomerate era pre-Welch. Both fairly unique conditions that were, in hindsight, necessary for the model to work. It could potentially work again but would take huge updates.
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