Camping on Seesaws: Prescriptions for a Self-Designing Organization

Abstract

Abstract An organization ‘s history can be broken down into segments of all kinds. One can focus upon single members ‘ activities in their jobs or upon the activities involving single functional or geographic units, like the purchasing department or the European division. One can discuss social and intellectual domains, such as chemistry, supervision, or theology. One can attend to contiguous events, such as what happened during January 1962. Although prevalent, these analyses portray an organization as static, and do not reveal its developmental capabilities. Designing an organization to fit society ‘s needs implies that it is less important to discover where an organization is than to understand how it got there, and where it can go tomorrow. Analyses that give footholds in time are the appropriate components for assembling trajectories into the future.

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