Organisations as people, clusters, networks

Ton Zijlstra neatly summarises in words and diagrams How We Might View Organisations as individuals and networks... not just people slotted into structures.
"Organisations are clusters of relationships between people. |
The individual and the network are the relevant economic units, not the organisation. |
Value is in the relationships, organisations are transactions along those relations."
Chris Corrigan, commenting, wonders if this is "something like the Open Space Organisation" and later describes how, if you map the way things really get done in organisations, the linkages look pretty much like Ton's diagrams. Great stuff.... transparent, understandable, usable. Earlier on this blog less elegant observations on organisations and networks.

Comments

[jenny]

really nice place here.