Conversations for aligning: openness, commitments, and accountability

Mark Addleson

Chapter Chapter 12 in Beyond Management, 2011, pp 152-169 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Organizing is often hard work. Aligning, which I’ve called the “bottom-line of organizing,” takes experience, ingenuity, and, sometimes, tough bargaining. Assignments that seem perfectly straightforward turn out to hide wicked problems that reveal themselves only when you are trying to clarify something or when you are looking for agreement from the team about what still needs to be done. Reaching agreement may take all kinds of compromises and could depend on knowing: which rules and procedures to follow, which you can bend, and how to circumvent others entirely; when to sidestep long-winded procedures even though you’ve been told “this is the way we do things here”; what you can do to free up funds, yet stay within budget.

Keywords: Social Space; Knowledge Worker; Wicked Problem; Mutual Accountability; Good Conversation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230343412_12

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