Radical Management Circle

Post date: Mar 31, 2013 9:38:11 AM

An interesting aspect of today's successful management strategy is materialized through the so called Radical Management Paradigm whose most important principles are described by Steve Denning at: http://www.stevedenning.com/Radical-Management/default.aspx.

These can be summarized as follows:

1. Delight customers by innovating continuously.
2. Enable self organizing teams.
3. Coordinate work through dynamic linking.
4. Focus on multiple values to achieve continuous innovation.
5. Communicate horizontally.

These techniques can work only together and only at the same time because of their inherent causality relationship, for example:

If you do not have horizontal communication and do not link dynamically focusing on team values then teams are not able to self organize and this way cannot innovate and as a consequence of this are not able to delight customers.

Now if you combine and rephrase these in another way, the conclusion would still be the same. In my opinion these principles build a close circle very well designed by Denning and conceive the essence of what would be today called agile management. Since this set is clearly of type "all or nothing" it means that it imposes a hard to achieve standard for most companies. Once achieved, most presumably another principle would derive from it and starting from this new point another circle would be conceived as fully describing the next management shift.