Top Down vs Bottom Up

The WORDS we use about organizations are, a sign that we live in the past, as before TECH was a natural part of most people's work.

It's profounding that the phrases: Top Down and Bottom Up are still used in a time where new Organizational Strategies, are so much needed - we need to DELETE + CONTROL!

Now, in post covid, we are in a New Paradigm; whether we like it or not! We all have to go through some kind of transformation, just like we did as children:

Assimilation and Accommodation, because we are all in a learning phase.

When I was teaching psychology, the most exciting part of it was this - understanding that assimilation is about keeping existing knowledge and schemas intact and finding a new place to keep and use new information, while accommodation involves actually changing one’s existing knowledge of a topic, Piaget's Theories.

How can we integrate Piaget into our world filled with changes, new ways of working, a new mindset, and a whole new way of working? I recommend having a closer look at Piaget; he is still the most recognized psychologist used when we talk about human development, from child and adult

A paradigm shift is a term and a sign of several smaller changes in behavior, mindset, or the way we view ourselves in the world - these are only examples of how people change now. When we're in a paradigm shift it means that not only we but the world changes, and it does!

We are in a time filled with Digitalization around us; it's faster than we are able to think, it gives us a lot of opportunities to do otherwise - workplaces are in a turnaround, even without we do anything, for the first time in history the change is evolving itself, with no human interaction - WE/the human force have to follow the development, not the other way around.

When I was a chief and leader, I was named: Manager in Change Management; I was in charge! (even though I did NOT at all like this approach, that was my title). Today Organizations do not need Managers, they need Leaders!

Leaders who dare! Turn things upside down - shift from Top Down to Bottom Up - see "employees" as HUMANS with an intact ability to intuitively contribute to the tough decision-making in the workplace - for that's what we do: We Work Together!

Layers in Leadership = Old Fashion, it's how Managers used to think, and this is actually hindering the New Paradigm to find its own place in the different needs in workplaces.

If we begin to Listen to the Humans we decide to invite to our Workplace - Accept & Respect them as personalities with good skills to support the work - then I KNOW their Value is Price- & Timeless!

The reason for expressing my Values, which I have been working by, all my life, is actually rooted in how I saw my parents in their company treat other people; they even hired some people who needed some help along the way and helped them find a stable home, paid extra to be able to build up that solid foundation it takes to Thrive in life & at work. I loved seeing that. As a 22-year-old woman I was headhunted to lead a bigger company, and it needed a turnaround, and within 1 year it was one of the best-selling shops in the town. Only mentioning this because I want to tell you this one thing: The Only Reason it succeeded was that I used exactly the same approach & leadership style, as a saw my parents did. Of course, I've developed this leadership style, and still do, after +30 years as a chief and leader.

Now, as I've been working with leaders for many years, this can help even more leaders. Working like this requires a shift in perspective; The Humans we invited into our companies are an integral interactive component of the entire change equation, and it will help us much better to succeed in the Changes & New Paradigm we are about to get in place and move on.

I hope the takeaway for you is - that we need to change our understanding of how work is being done! That hierarchies and levels are IRRELEVANT - it's actually hindering what we need. It's time to BE more than STRIVING FOR; appreciating each other's efforts is a new way. If we all contribute to a better Human Connection, we get so much more at work.

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