Creating the best organization by losing control - how empowerment helps to win effectiveness

This episode is all about Empowerment. The term has been overused in the context of new work, but when we dive deeper into its meaning, we realize how important it is in order to create an effective organization. The main idea of empowerment lies within the creation of an operating system driven by the underlying assumption that people truly want to create value. As leaders, we're responsible for providing a safe space, meaningful tools, and confidence to empower individuals and a team to create value. Whereas being in control was a core strength of a leader in the past, letting go of control for the sake of productivity is a core strength of a leader today.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The digital age comes with radical changes in how value is created. While our future leaders, the millennials, have evolved their values, the way of how businesses and organisations are run is stuck in the industrial epoch. The keywords of a “new work era” are widely spread, but remained poorly put into practice in most cases. Instead of thoroughly understanding how instrumental their impact for business success can be they are used to lure young talents into organisations that are run as ever before. The risk of this is not only the loss of motivation and engagement of a whole generation in their jobs and towards their employer, but more interestingly the loss of effectiveness with which businesses are approaching increasing complexity & future challenges. In this podcast we, Anna & Rolf, want to take the buzz out of New Work and interview smart minds who have approached Org topics in a different way. We want to get to the core of their beliefs, discuss their approaches and ultimately learn how to best tackle the complexity of our business world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.