I’ve drawn the picture below as a reaction to the current inclination of prominent #ChangeManagement the(r)orists frowning at “military” style #CommandAndControl or #C2 organizational methods while promoting #FlatOrganizations without #MiddleManagement and with no need for #Planning (everything will change anyway), as a far better, more #Agile way of dealing with #Complexity.

This may be true if the organization is operating and struggling to survive on the left side of this “complexity plane”, but if it wants to mature and “get somewhere in life” it better starts aiming for the other side by collecting, documenting and using “lessons learned”, planning for and working towards wherever it wants to be in the future.