is an excellent book by Niels Pflaeging (isbn 978-0-9915376-0-0).
As usual I'm going to quote from a few pages:
What Taylor pioneered was the idea of consistently dividing an
organization
between thinking people (managers) and executing
people (workers).
Problem-solving in a life-less system is about instruction.
Problem-solving in a living system is about
communication.
Any attempt to motivate can only lead to de-motivation.
Ultimately, organizing for complexity
and self-organization are always about empowering
teams
... not about empowering individuals.
Actual teams
of people working for and with each other.
Nobody is in control. Everybody is in charge.
To be intensively involved in selection [recruiting] is a matter of honor.
A hallmark of great selection is that it is highly
time-consuming.
Management is a mindset that will not just go away all by itself.
When employees think for themselves and make entrepreneurial decisions
automonomously, you must at all times bear joint reponsibility for
those decisions, even if you or other members of the organization
might have decided differently.
A "beta" kind of organization produces many such stories: Peculiarities,
unusual practices, by which they can be instantly recognized among so
many over-managed and under-led organizations.
People do not need to be forced to work. However, this deeply-seated
prejudice about people and their relationship to work is what keeps
management alive.
