Some takeaways from Doug Kirkpatrick talk at the Agile People Sweden Conference 2018.

• We live in a VUCA world of Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity. How to cope? How to adapt?
• In coping in this VUCA world, organizations may help us or hinder us
• Can we create organizations where everyone has a voice, where women don’t need to lean in, and where complexity is managed with simplicity?

• People should not use force or coercion against other people
• People should keep commitments they make to each other
• People are good managers in their own personal lives
• People make gigantic life-altering decisions without a boss

• Organizations are concepts, only human beings are the ultimate reality in making decisions and taking actions
• Eliminate or reduce the financial burden that is associated with management tax
• Management tax; managers are always paid more than the people they manage
• Management is not rocket science. Management is planning, organizing, controlling, selecting, and coordinating (everyone does that already!)
• Amplify the management skills of the workers and reduce the number of bosses and the bosses of those bosses

• An organization that figures out how to slash the management tax has a better chance of growth than other organizations that struggle with it
• Management tax is a moral question, not just economic or bureaucratic
• The American economy is likely to save three trillion dollars a year by slashing the management tax

• Zero command authority means zero; it means no one has the authority to walk up to others and tell them what to do
• It’s not about democracy or majority vote, it’s about protecting the voices of each individual in the ecosystem

• Command authority create weaker leaders
• Self-management is beyond empowerment. Self-management is power itself, a power that cannot be repossessed by managers

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