Trust Beats Command: Embracing Autonomy for Innovation & Success

Do you trust your employees? Do you give them sufficient autonomy?

 
At the speed of today’s Exponential Organizations, top-down command *breaks*… it slows things to a crawl.

And with the acceleration of remote work and the rapid adoption of digital collaboration tools like Slack and Zoom, people can increasingly live and work anywhere.

Given these realities, the only real option for success is Autonomy: the next attribute in the ExO model.

“Autonomy is an organizational approach characterized by self-organized, multidisciplinary teams that operate with decentralized authority and, ideally, self-select their work—all in service of hitting OKRs and the company’s MTP and Moonshot.” 

Greater Autonomy, in turn, allows for more freedom, the spontaneous formation of teams, and, inevitably, greater creativity and productivity.

In today’s blog, I’ll discuss several case studies of companies that use Autonomy effectively, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs), and how you can incorporate more Autonomy in your own business.

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