What is Self-Management? | #Innovation | 21st Century Learning and Teaching | Scoop.it

Self-Management is an alternative to the traditional, hierarchical method of organizing we see most often in modern organizations. There are a few key ideas that are central to the Self-Management philosophy, namely that:

People are generally happier when they have control over their own life (and work) It doesn't make a lot of sense to give the decision-making authority to the person that furthest (literally) away from the actual work being done.


When you give good people more responsibility, they tend to flourish


The traditional hierarchical model of organizations is not scalable—in fact, it's a recipe for a slow painful death


There's an undeniable link between freedom and economic prosperity in nations around the world—and, further, an undeniable link between lack of freedom and corruption at the national level.

 

The same is true of human organizations in general.

 

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