Bill Fischer and Simone Cicero on Haier and the entrepreneurial organisation
...create asymmetric risks. **So I think this is really one clear and key aspect of, of the system.
B Fischer: And what I think is that everybody wants bottom-up type of innovation because we feel that there’s more energy and people are closer to the customer…and I agree with that. **But what I’ve seen in so m...more
...elf-confident, courageous, top management, you’re not going to get that because it’s only a visionary, self-confident top management that can unleash bottom-up suggestions and not take them as threats. **And so, you know, I think in a sense, Zhang Ruimin really plays that role very well, because he is self-c...more
Peter Koenig on source, money and consciousness
...adigm shift from parent-child dynamics in organisations to more adult to adult, and part of that is not just a 'top-down' transformation, but also a 'bottom-up' transformation, (if I can say that way, which is also a little bit outdated). But in a sense, the people who have had traditional roles of power, l...more
Gary Hamel on busting bureaucracy for good
...l that challenging. And I would say just one last kind of precondition - that whatever the process, it has to be emergent. It has to in some sense be bottom up - you have to create a coalition of the willing. Thirdly, because bureaucracy works after a fashion, whatever you do you have to be careful that you...more