Comments on: It’s the Governance, Stupid! http://www.leftyparent.com/blog/2010/03/23/it%e2%80%99s-the-governance-stupid/ Living & parenting without the rule book Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:47:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Cooper Zale http://www.leftyparent.com/blog/2010/03/23/it%e2%80%99s-the-governance-stupid/comment-page-1/#comment-6908 Cooper Zale Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:30:14 +0000 http://www.leftyparent.com/blog/?p=1874#comment-6908 Ben... thanks for the thoughts on this... I believe it to be crucial topic at this point in our human history that gets way too little play. I will have to read Adler's paper on different types of bureaucracies. Sounds like the difference between directive and facilitative leadership, the latter being what promotes a more egalitarian process of group consent. I'm not against bureaucracy totally, it is needed for institutions to function, but I have trouble with top-down bureaucracy, particularly with enough degrees of separation so that the decision-makers and those affected by the decisions don't have a relationship or even actually communicate at all. Also see my next piece on "Power (Over) Corrupts". Unfortunately the folks that host my blog have already done the backup, so when they reformat and restore the backup (hopefully on Friday or Saturday) your comment and my response will dissappear. Ben… thanks for the thoughts on this… I believe it to be crucial topic at this point in our human history that gets way too little play.

I will have to read Adler’s paper on different types of bureaucracies. Sounds like the difference between directive and facilitative leadership, the latter being what promotes a more egalitarian process of group consent. I’m not against bureaucracy totally, it is needed for institutions to function, but I have trouble with top-down bureaucracy, particularly with enough degrees of separation so that the decision-makers and those affected by the decisions don’t have a relationship or even actually communicate at all. Also see my next piece on “Power (Over) Corrupts”.

Unfortunately the folks that host my blog have already done the backup, so when they reformat and restore the backup (hopefully on Friday or Saturday) your comment and my response will dissappear.

]]> By: Ben Boer http://www.leftyparent.com/blog/2010/03/23/it%e2%80%99s-the-governance-stupid/comment-page-1/#comment-6905 Ben Boer Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:03:28 +0000 http://www.leftyparent.com/blog/?p=1874#comment-6905 I think that you are both right. You are correct to focus on governance, but a flat hierarchy can be overly confusing and hard to execute. I think that Hettleman over-states the use of rigid management. Paul Adler wrote a paper about coercive and enabling <a href="http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~padler/research/ASQ%20copy-1.pdf" rel="nofollow">bureaucracy</a>. I think this captures the middle ground quite well. Bureaucracy or governance is necessary, but successful bureaucracies have a set of features that allow them to be enabling. I think that you are both right. You are correct to focus on governance, but a flat hierarchy can be overly confusing and hard to execute. I think that Hettleman over-states the use of rigid management. Paul Adler wrote a paper about coercive and enabling bureaucracy. I think this captures the middle ground quite well. Bureaucracy or governance is necessary, but successful bureaucracies have a set of features that allow them to be enabling.

]]> By: Cooper Zale http://www.leftyparent.com/blog/2010/03/23/it%e2%80%99s-the-governance-stupid/comment-page-1/#comment-6834 Cooper Zale Wed, 24 Mar 2010 06:09:53 +0000 http://www.leftyparent.com/blog/?p=1874#comment-6834 Nestor... I am happy to let you use it, but please let me know how you happened upon my piece. Feel free to email me at cooper@leftyparent.com. Nestor… I am happy to let you use it, but please let me know how you happened upon my piece. Feel free to email me at cooper@leftyparent.com.

]]> By: nestor d. fermin http://www.leftyparent.com/blog/2010/03/23/it%e2%80%99s-the-governance-stupid/comment-page-1/#comment-6833 nestor d. fermin Wed, 24 Mar 2010 02:00:48 +0000 http://www.leftyparent.com/blog/?p=1874#comment-6833 I find this article very informative. May I use this to support my view on "The Formal Models of Educational Management"? I will post it with attribution, of course. I am enrolled in Diploma in Teaching/ M.A. in Teaching and I had a hard time doing researches until I found this article in your blog. Great Blog!! I find this article very informative.
May I use this to support my view on “The Formal Models of Educational Management”? I will post it with attribution, of course.
I am enrolled in Diploma in Teaching/ M.A. in Teaching and I had a hard time doing researches until I found this article in your blog.
Great Blog!!

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