| If people would mind their own business life would be | | | | If you know what your business is, what you are good |
| boring. But it would help organization if employees | | | | at, the productive role that fits you best, you will also fit |
| would mind their own business. The easiest way to | | | | easier in the organization. If everybody's role is clear, |
| manage an organization is by picturing it as a network, | | | | than teamwork will follow automatically. |
| hierarchy or other form of small atomic business units; | | | | But as organizations become more complex, the |
| a single employee business. Think of every person in | | | | attention for ones' personal role seems to become |
| the organization as a solo entrepreneur. | | | | less of a point for management. One could wonder |
| Organizations become more complex because we | | | | whether we need all that expensive management if |
| have forgotten that they are only a set of companies | | | | people would just know what their own business is. Or, |
| that work under the same umbrella. It is easier to join | | | | does the manager make it all too complex just to |
| an organization so that people know each other and | | | | save his job? I don't think that way, but sometimes it |
| they can interact swiftly amongst themselves. | | | | looks like it. |
| Yet organizations have grown over the last decades | | | | Productivity of the organization can only start by |
| and have become more and more complex and some | | | | employees being productive. And to know how to be |
| simple basics about management and control have | | | | productive, try to imagine yourself as being a single |
| been replaced by all kinds of techniques, methods and | | | | company, within the boundaries of a larger |
| inspirational issues that have little to do with the main | | | | organization. |
| drive of organizations: to do business. | | | | H.J.B. |