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Introduction to Kicking Command and Control

This Forum aims to:

1. help leaders to ‘kick’ the Command and Control habits of mind and learn how to use systems thinking to co-create viable, just and sustainable human systems.
   
2. provide a place where activist systems thinkers can combine to launch and orchestrate attacks on - ‘kick’- the Command and Control model wherever and whenever they identify its anti-human and anti-Gaian consequences.
   
3. build a global anti-Command and Control wiki-library.
   
4. act as a hub for a global anti-Command and Control, pro Gaia, pro humanity, pro systems thinking community

Hooked on the Command and Control Kool-Aid

Why did dedicated British Social Workers fail to prevent the tragic murder of Baby P? Why do British managers say that up to 40% of their time is spent unproductively? Why are our societies incapable of mobilising their citizens to work together to reduce our ecological footprints and stave off global warming and environmental catastrophe? Why are trade unions often bad employers? Why do radical left-wing politicians usually disappoint their followers when in office? Systems thinkers say that public officials, Ministers, environmental campaigners, corporate executives, radical left-wingers, trade unionists fail to understand that these, and a multitude of other, system failures stem from their inability – or refusal – to see that complex issues can only be tackled through adopting performance-improvement strategies based on systems thinking.

Why do these otherwise exceptional people stick with ways of thinking, working and organising that fail so disastrously time and time again? Stripping away minor political, social and cultural differences, the answer is that they all share a common commitment to the Command and Control model of leadership.

If we are to use systems thinking to avoid many more horrible tragedies like that of Baby P, reduce our ecological footprints, stave off global warming and environmental catastrophe, and manufacture products that meet the needs of 21^st century societies, we have to tackle head-on the problem of Command and Control Leadership

 

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