Business Warriors

The bottleneck of protocol could be solved by smart apps, like Jira/Agile or any other workflow applications. However, these are just cosmetic alterations that bring only smoothing of the system workflow. As we have witnessed in the last couple of years of the pandemic, wars, market deviations, and crashes, as well as other sociopolitical disruptions that brought down for example broken supply chains; organizations not only have to be fit, they have to be extremely resilient, flexible, and equipped and ready for literally anything. Today’s condition-sine-qua-non(s) of the organizations are to be resilient to any shocks to the system and have prepared solutions to any and every curved ball thrown by the market, sociopolitical disruption, competitors, new technologies, etc., and even that is not enough and does not guarantee a successful outcome. We could easily claim that the market players are now in a perpetual state of war. One more important condition is that organizational designs especially of the big organizations do not comply with the new industry/business as well as social environment. No AI can help in this constellation, since the reaction and solutions have to be smart, hard, and implemented swiftly with the indication that after one hole is plugged, the other could be open in an instant. Today managers have to be warriors, cutting the red tape of traditional administrative protocols, thus solving problems on the spot with a firm grip on reality. Gloves of, and getting the hands dirty. It really doesn’t matter if it is an internal organizational problem, disruption in the market due to market volatility, or changes in sociopolitical reality, the problem has to be solved ad hoc. No time for gathering data, crunching numbers, simulations, AI, or smart apps. The problem has to be solved immediately. So, it is reliable to say that we not only need a new kind of managers-warriors but an utterly new approach to problem-solving as well as completely new organizational designs since the hierarchy is not working out in a new sociopolitical reality. About the new organizational design propositions in my new blog.