Dancing on Stage. Artisanal Relationships

“I am my own maker”

Corialanus. William Shakespeare.

We are at the end of hierarchies and control, though many organisations have not understood that yet. It was fine, good even, in the age of scientific management and organisation-as-machine and male, military models of leadership. Order and Action were the order of the day. Change as something to be subdued and managed.

No longer. Creativity and Relationships are what matters in this next phase. Order and action will return much later - likely after all of us working for a living are long gone.

Change will take care of itself. It's way beyond something that can be managed. It always was really - which is why so many "change management" programmes fail (except for the consultants). If we want to influence (not control) the change we're in what matters now is our relationships.

Not just with each other, inside the neat boundaries of an organisation.

Firstly, it's about our relationship with ourselves. We all have unique capabilities and und…