Cell Structure Design | No-limits value creation

#CellStructureDesign is the world's best approach to #orgdesign. Created in 2019 by @SilkeHermann & @NielsPflaeging at @RedForty2. Powered by #BetaCodex

[Cell Structure Design | No-limits value creation @workthesystem]

We just changed this Twitter account's name to #CellStructureDesign @WorkTheSystem, in order to focus more on contemporary #OrgDesign and #decentralization. Stay tuned!

[Niels Pflaeging @NielsPflaeging]

Please follow me on Substack, as that's where I am moving my most active web posting!
https://t.co/HA7VfpAcJj
And I also curate a serious Red42 Substack there:
https://t.co/1j8nfQWQYV
I am also on LinkedIn, Bluesky, Mastodon, Instagram, etc. etc.

[Niels Pflaeging @NielsPflaeging]

A period of time, a country, a man.
Read the brand new "Deming in Japan, 1950-1965" research paper.
https://t.co/cE6mD19JP7

[Niels Pflaeging @NielsPflaeging]

Later today: A conversation with the wonderful Peter Block about his latest book “Activating the common good: Reclaiming control of our collective well-being”. A book that could not be more timely!
https://t.co/YlZCwAPO4P

[Niels Pflaeging @NielsPflaeging]

In the 23rd @BetaCodex_INTL research paper (published yesterday), I invite you to take a closer look at the 1950s and 1960s, when W. Edwards Deming taught the Japanese about production & management for quality: https://t.co/Dj3WTykupn

[Niels Pflaeging @NielsPflaeging]

People who talk of leaders
are obsessed with authoritarian thinking.
They cannot get rid of
paternalistic (“power-over”) patterns of imagining the world.
They have nothing constructive
to contribute to organizations or societies.

[Niels Pflaeging @NielsPflaeging]

A new BetaCodex Network research paper is here: "Deming in Japan, 1950-1965"
Read the BetaCodex Network news announcement: https://t.co/AJYZtMM1wU
Access the paper here: https://t.co/cE6mD19JP7

[Niels Pflaeging @NielsPflaeging]

Practical theory makes people think.
Great cases only make people nod (at best).
Which is why "safaris" to the Silicon Valley or other "inspiring" places are dysfunctional.
Sorry.

[Niels Pflaeging @NielsPflaeging]

This week's new article, on #Deming, #Drucker and the crucial difference between the two: https://t.co/ly2bmw1q8H

[Niels Pflaeging @NielsPflaeging]

Don’t aim at being a generalist - aim at being a multi-specialist! Robust, high-performing teams are made up of multi-specialists, or “individuals with several, or many masteries” who can effortlessly slip into several different roles.
“Generalist” – that sounds like “scallywag”.

[Niels Pflaeging @NielsPflaeging]

Self-organization and self-management: They are NOT the same! Which is why we at Red42 focus on supporting consistent self-organization in companies. And not that other thing. Check out our website at https://t.co/MJsyznrwNu

[Niels Pflaeging @NielsPflaeging]

The "Power of Language" poster is here: Get it now from Red42 – international shipping available! An amazing learning, workshop and group intervention resource that helps you question the patterns of language in work and in organizations. Just EUR 9,00:
https://t.co/Sa8xyvhpKn

[Niels Pflaeging @NielsPflaeging]

A new article of mine on LinkedIn!
https://t.co/E9pVKM8uQd

[Red42 | IT'S ABOUT TIME @RedForty2]

News post on our website:
"The Power of Language: New poster in English becomes available from Red42"
https://t.co/BAa4I9vcPB

[Niels Pflaeging @NielsPflaeging]

Become a certified "Cell Structure Design Practitioner": A learning-intense day with the creators of Cell Structure Design! https://t.co/EdjBhBseBz

[Niels Pflaeging @NielsPflaeging]

Relative Targets – not OKRs!
Because OKRs are bloody bullshit.
https://t.co/abYdiGhX3s

[Cell Structure Design | No-limits value creation @workthesystem]

Command-and-Control Management ist anti-democratic,

[Markus Metz ❤️ 🆒 🚻 @miasanmetz]

The ideology of management and the dominance of managers are alien to the ideas of democracy and democratic society; they are anti-democratic by definition. Thomas Diefenbach

[Cell Structure Design | No-limits value creation @workthesystem]

But people ARE free.

[Markus Metz ❤️ 🆒 🚻 @miasanmetz]

To sum up, the ideology of management, the dominance of managers and the managerial organisation are anti-democratic, exploitative, inhumane, unjust and class-centered. If people were free, they would not choose this type of organisation. Thomas Diefenbach

[Niels Pflaeging @NielsPflaeging]

Culture cannot be broken.
Culture cannot be wrong.
Culture does not pose a problem.
Culture does not stand in the way.
Culture does not force anybody.
Culture is not powerful.
Stop believing in "culture gurus" like Ed Schein.
It's the system, stupid!
https://t.co/PeB9qKXFxv

[Niels Pflaeging @NielsPflaeging]

What's new and current in the #BetaUniverse? In this conversation video with @soundslikeryan and me, you will get a great overview of what the BetaCodex Network has achieved in the last 17 years or so!
https://t.co/gKkN7i7Hw3

[Niels Pflaeging @NielsPflaeging]

Check out the @BetaCodex_INTL research, conducted 2008 to 2025! We published 22 papers so far. It's a lot of content on organizational development, decentralization, org democracy, performance systems, org design, change, transformation & leadership! https://t.co/qRDdR4M4k2