Essays

Longer pieces on organisations, responsibility, and what holds under pressure.

Some of my work fits into a proposal. The thinking that comes before it does not. This is where it ends up: longer pieces on how organisations decide, on artificial intelligence, and on the distance between the place a decision is made and the place it has to hold.

Most of what I write is in German. These are the pieces that exist in English. The German collection is here.

A series in seven parts

Resilient. Human. Future-Fit. — what organisations can learn from 800 years of constitutional history. Each essay stands on its own; together they make one argument.

We Actually Knew That
Prologue — Why the knowledge an organisation already holds so rarely reaches the decision.

Architecture Beats Appeal
1 of 6 — What is not anchored in the structure is a feeling, not a value.

The Individual's Dignity Is the Floor, Not the Roof
2 of 6 — Dignity as a precondition of performance, not its reward.

Participation Is a Productivity Function, Not a Feel-Good Factor
3 of 6 — Why a correct decision made without participation is still a bad one.

Sharing Power, Not Just Limiting It
4 of 6 — Limited power is still power. Shared power changes the organisation.

Sustainability as Purpose, Not as a Goal
5 of 6 — The difference between something you achieve and something that holds.

The Common-Good Square
6 of 6 — Four layers, and why the first step is to see the constitution you already have.

Books

The English editions of the series Organization under AI are at organization-under-ai.com. UNMANAGED is published by LID Publishing, London.