We are in the midst of a leadership crisis. The rational, ego-driven authority model of organizations that is based on ideas that are over a century old will not work anymore in the future. We can dive deep into this like I did in previous essays about a non-hierarchical leadership model or about using design thinking as the inspiration to design the organization of the future, but maybe we can start much simpler. Maybe we can start with one simple inversion. What if we just start by turning the organizational chart upside down?
A traditional, century old, org chart looks like this, we have all seen it in every other Powerpoint presentation:
The traditional org chart
What if we just turn this dinosaur upside down?