🌸Management Future Notebook - Wednesday (Issue 66) - Complete Preservation Edition: "Why Do Organizations Change or Fail to Change?"
🌸Management Future Notebook - Wednesday (Issue 66) - Complete Preservation Edition
"Why Do Organizations Change or Fail to Change?"
(Written by Akifumi Yasumura / Business Ability Development Co., Ltd.)
Since today is Wednesday, I am delivering "Human Growth and Awareness."
We will re-examine team and individual interactions, and deepen self-understanding and human understanding through Enneagram coaching and case studies.
■ Introduction
Once, when I looked at a flower, I thought,
Why do flowers bloom beautifully in the mountains even when no one is there to see them?
Also, why do the patterns on a panda or the beauty of a butterfly's wings
exist at all?
I have thought about such things.
■ Biological Patterns and Self-Organization
It is said that biological patterns are often explained by the
"Reaction-Diffusion Model" (Turing pattern) proposed by Alan Turing.
The formation process of the pattern itself
is called "self-organization."
Self-organization is
a phenomenon where things move in a certain direction without conscious effort.
While "patterning" is born through self-organization,
natural selection subsequently acts upon it based on factors such as:
・Is the pattern advantageous for survival?
・Is it conspicuous?
・Is it easy to hide from predators?
・Is it preferred by the opposite sex?
In other words,
"Self-organization" + "Selection"
is a two-stage structure.
It is like the phenomenon where a certain language suddenly starts trending on social media.
■ Organizations and Society Operate Under the Same Structure
Economic trends, history,
and the atmosphere and culture of an organization
can be said to be self-organized in a sense,
regardless of the individual's will.
The role of the leader at that time
is not to leave self-organization to chance.
It is to select the direction
and drop the first drop.
Once the direction is indicated,
the interactions within the organization will begin to move.
This is
"the only way to change culture."
■ Future Reproduction is "Installing Consciousness"
However, regarding the future,
while it is evolution for living organisms,
humans have
another vector called "selection."
I used to be bad at writing invoices.
That was because I was convinced that
I was not the kind of person who deserved to be paid.
However,
from the moment I chose my way of being as "I am a person who is allowed to receive money,"
I experienced a change in the flow of money.
Future reproduction is choosing the future not as a "thought" but as an "existence."
■ The Brain Has a Servo Mechanism Aimed at the Future
When our brains and bodies
begin to visualize a successful future, even just a little,
the unconscious
activates a servo mechanism
that heads toward it.
Organizations are the same.
From the moment a future image is selected,
the interactions between employees
begin to self-organize
toward that future.
That is why
showing a future image
is the leader's most important job.
In other words,
the change of selecting a future
brings about the evolution and growth of the organization.
Furthermore, there,
self-organization called change
occurs,
and the future begins to move in a certain direction.
Organizational culture can also
be explained on the dual structure of "self-organization" + "selection."
■ Conclusion
Our daily lives
strongly contain elements of self-organization.
When elements of
"change,"
"evolution,"
and "growth"
via "selection" are added to that,
self-organization works even more,
and an accelerator is activated.
■ Corporate Culture and Leadership
・Individual behavioral patterns are also determined more by
internal interactions than by consciousness.
In other words,
it is the phenomenon that "order is born
without top-down instructions."
The fact that order is born without intent
as a corporate culture
is very strongly related to
leadership theory.
In other words,
your will
and your consciousness
are working more powerfully
than you think.
■ Editor's Note
The future is not something born by chance,
but something that begins to move through selection.
As more people visualize the future,
the organization will change naturally.
■ Today's Question
💡If you simply give yourself permission to say, "I am allowed to receive this,"
how do you think it will change
your actions?
■ Cat's Whispers
Just by imagining the future a little bit,
your brain has already started moving, meow.
■ Conclusion
Organizational culture
cannot be changed through "management."
What changes is
the choice of the future.
The moment a leader points to the future,
the organization begins to self-organize in that direction.
In other words,
the future is not something to be designed,
but something to be chosen.
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