Giving Up Control to Gain It
In the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou?, smooth-talking conman Ulysses Everett McGill and his two friends, Pete and a rube named Delmar, escape from prison. Soon they're having a debate about who's really in charge of their newly formed “gang.” Everett claims he is, because he's the only one with the capacity for abstract thought. Pete challenges him, making Delmar the tie-breaker. Delmar thinks for a second, and says, “Well, all right then. I'm with you fellers.”
Managers don't have to choose between complete control or no control at all. They can have both, for free, if they're brave enough to choose to live in a world like that. Gary Hamel talks about a technique for acting into an unknown future. He calls it finding ...
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