Vision on transformation
Complexity, openness and flexibility
Organisations are confronted with complex problems for which known solutions are insufficiently effective. Leaders are faced with multiple tasks at a time in which information moves increasingly faster and is increasingly fluid. Structure and process management can no longer provide sufficient direction to this increasing openness and dynamic. Flexible, open bottom-up and network approaches are gaining stance. Organisations work with increasingly larger outside 'layers' and are much more connected, almost part of the outside world. This leads to new and diverse working relationships and to organisations with characteristics of an organic system. And all of this has an impact on company culture and reputation, and therefore calls for transformation of leadership. It is of obvious importance organisations need to be able to adapt the organisation and execution of work - virtually in the moment - while looking simultaneously at the context and company with a broad view.
Organising principles
Successful organisations find a natural flow that embraces increasing complexity and dynamics, while working with a sufficient number of anchors and benchmarks. They relate themselves to the world in openness and grant meaning to that. The outside world more often becomes the inside world and vice versa, which calls for organising principles that are aligned with that. It makes the need for connection from a strong sense of sharing mission and values even more evident.
Trust and new perspectives
Trust plays an increasing role in this. You cannot organise trust, it emerges when there is a sense of space, when success means being able to work from the position of one's own strength and when people can capture the new perspectives. Riverdance Counsel facilitates these 'changes of perspective' which allows a person, team or organisation to do exactly that which is necessary due to what presents itself in the moment. In this process, a developing organisation can take on various forms. Organisations and people 'move' all the time. New challenges create new responsibilities and roles and this will only increase.