What if the question became “How can everyone be powerful?” rather than “How can everyone have equal power?” In his book on organizational design that adopts a framework of organization-as-organism rather than organization-as-machine, the Belgian scholar of human behavior and management Frederic Laloux writes: “[P]eople can hold different levels of power, and yet everyone can be powerful . . . [as] in an ecosystem, interconnected organisms thrive without one holding power over another . . . the point is not to make everyone equal; it is to allow all employees to grow into the strongest,
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