“Hierarchies are bad! Transparency is a value & everybody should decide everything!”

Principle Misunderstandings (part 2)

This is the second part of a series of observations on how the principles behind new ways of working are often misunderstood and therefore lose their effectiveness or can send us off in harmful directions. You can find part 1 here.

The following are actually rather “ideas taken to the extreme” — or principles mistaken for something else rather than merely being misunderstood principles. All three…