There is an irony in the difficulty of the quest that many of our organizations are launching, looking to discover the relationship they have with people.
We have seen people treated as things, treated as resources, as active or as a risk, treated as skills containers, such as goal ships, or as followers and believers to a greater cause.
Sometimes the dial highlighted the exploitation, to others to feed and take care. Currently, it seems to be fixed somewhere between “disposable” and “Goldmine”, because we see a double tension in cost control, “return to the office”, and the inherited power, in relation to the desire for collaboration, the commitment invested and the belief led by the goal.
The irony resides to forget that people are, above all, real, while organizations are not. Organizations are goal and effect structures, they are not “real” in the sense that gravity, trees and people are real.
This lies at the heart of the real question, which is to ask what we want our Organizations Being, as opposed to what we want people to do.
While maintaining the profit and the goal, should organizations act at the service of the company or the company should act at the service of organizations?
Being effective always has a cost, but this cost should be an investment arranged or a deliberate compromise. Money for usefulness, or trusted opportunities, etc. When the cost is imposed, then it is simply an exploitation. And it is not because we “can” do something that we have to do it.
The generative AI, as for so many things, will upset this debate, because the possibilities of exploitation will compete or exceed those for illumination and activation, and will highlight this central question.
What do we want our organizations to be, in the type of society, and give us the opportunity to invest our efforts and our time.
If we are not deliberated on this subject, we will perpetuate the inheritance and naive organizational structures, on the basis of an obsolete and bankrupt relationship with people.
At Learnopoly, Finn has championed a mission to deliver unbiased, in-depth reviews of online courses that empower learners to make well-informed decisions. With over a decade of experience in financial services, he has honed his expertise in strategic partnerships and business development, cultivating both a sharp analytical perspective and a collaborative spirit. A lifelong learner, Finn’s commitment to creating a trusted guide for online education was ignited by a frustrating encounter with biased course reviews.