if the challenge of the past has been to get organized the challenge of the future is to find ways in which we can remain open to continuous self-organization so that we can adapt and evolve as we go along this is what imaginization ultimately helps us to do because it involves a constant process of interpreting and reinterpreting where we are and where we want to be it opens the way to a mode of personal theorizing that can create a self-organizing reservoir of new insights that can be modified or replaced as better ones emerge
i have and image of the modern manager as someone who is equipped with a sophisticated radar system that allows her to sense or read what is happening and to use this reading to shape or write and appropriate response it is an image of a creative manager who is always able to develop novel insights understandings and actions to meet the challenges at hand it provides a powerful means of breaking the constraints of bureaucratic thinking and for launching our organizations into the reality of an einsteinian world where capacities for continuous learning and self organization are likely to become the norm
bureaucratic organizations tend to be variety-reducing system they take complex and uncertain patterns of information and through rules programs and standardized frames of