Self-organising to a pub?

I have seen managers struggling with self-organisation, to the point of hesitating to lead, because “it would not be self-organising”. As much as I hope for a replacement to prevailing tayloristic / Theory X management, this goes too far and is throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

Management void

Too many companies are in trouble because no one is managing them. In the scope of this blog entry, management means managing work so that it works, and looking after the organization so that it is functional (and I really don’t care to get into the difference between management and leadership, or their various different flavours).