Business Management Skills

A standard mistake that’s made when projects for implementing change are thought to be is to equate the intelligence of the individual members of an organization with the overall intelligence of the organization itself. It might appear the more smart members that an organization has the more clever the organization would be in an additive or exponential sense. Frequently, though, the case turns out to be opposite from the expectancy. The emergent intelligence of an organization of folks has a tendency to be less than that of the individual members. This does not bode well for implementing change.

The irony of the matter is that for more basic forms of life, there’s an additive principle for the overall intelligence of organizations. Take, for instance, the activity of ants and ant colonies. An individual ant is able only of a very limited set of actions. However [*COMMA] an ant colony is capable of terribly complicated sets of activities like building or defense. Despite the absence of individual intelligence, when placed into a group situation, ants will naturally fall into arranged and regimented activities. The emergent intelligence of the ant colony is greater than that of an individual ant.

When placed into groups that are implementing change, homo sapiens do not adopt networked activity. Moreover, the more clever the people involved, the tougher it becomes to make them engage in networked behavior. Perhaps this is due to the assertion of individuality, but the end result is that setups of homo sapiens tend to respond slowly and ineffectively without the presences of a strong, organizing intelligence.

in essence, implementing change in setups filled with smart people is about making more effective networked behaviors. The people need to be brought onboard with the change, usually through the intervention of a high ranking executive. This allows the change pro or change team to more successfully manage the relatively low emergent intelligence of the organization in such a manner that it will implement the changes required by the project or situation.

For more information, please see our website: Implementing Change