From Command and Control to Collaboration and Teamwork

Two items about the shift in management from command and control to collaboration and teamwork are highlighted by Luis Suarez. One is a video by Cisco CEO John Chambers on “the power of collaborating innovation.” The other item is an article by Oliver Marks on the shift to collaboration and teamwork. The key, says Oliver Marks, is:

“Stepping down from command and control formal authority and instead overseeing a web of relationships and inter dependencies requires you to be able to build an inclusive collaborative approach, more of a leading from behind perspective, to be an effective leader. To allow leadership as collective genius requires you to subjugate your own ego in order to allow others to thrive”

With the shift to virtual teams and meetings in virtual worlds coming to the fore, command and control is on the way out. Collective intelligence using social media and other knowledge building tools is on the rise. With the crises of economies, ecology and climate change facing us, it is not a moment too soon. (GW)

From Command and Control to Collaboration and Teamwork | elsua.net | Luis Suarez | 9 February 2009

Tagged as: Change Management, Collective Intelligence