If you look at it, both the postclassical and the X organization reveal to be network organizations, consisting of networks and operating within networks. Networks, as Harrison C. White has it (Identity and Control, 1992, p. 253), decouple - and committees embed. ... read full article.

Imagine an organization you are a member of because it leaves your motivation to join up to you. Ready?

Now contrast this with a plethora of organizations trying to motivate you, as an employee, as a manager, as a client, as an investor, as a regulator, or what have you. Ready?

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System One promises to be the midwife of another instantiation of the concept and the reality of the the postclassical organization, which assumes a world of ontogenetics instead of ontologies, and of undecidability instead of determinateness.

The basic idea of the postclassical organization is self-organization, still in the sense discovered by complexity research sixty years ago. If you cannot describe a phenomenon by the means of either causality or statistics, and you have good reasons to assume it exists nevertheless, Warren Weaver told us in his paper on "Science and Complexity" (American Scientist 1948), you may assume as well that the phenomenon knows something about itself, that you don't know about it. If not, it would not exist. Call, what the phenomenon knows about itself, its way to self-organize. ... read full article.