The phrase ”Freedom with Responsibility?” doesn’t seem to exist in English. It’s what you get if you type in the Swedish phrase “frihet under ansvar” into Google. It’s a company culture that I’ve come to dislike more and more. In theory “freedom with responsibility” is a fantastic thing. It means that employees are 100% empowered …
I’ve been wanting to write this series of articles for quite a while. In a world of agile transformations, straw man arguments about command and control and Taylorism, and self-organization being the answer to everything, I’ve been missing a balanced and realistic discussion about the role of management. In the upcoming series of posts, I’ll …