Organizational Success

1. The Adhocracy Model

An adhocracy is is defined as "an organization with little or no structure" (www.dictionary.com). Althought the structure may be minimal, I believe it can be the most effective method of organizing a business. Using an adhocracy allows every single member of the business an equal opportunity to contribute time, talents, and intellectual abilities to a particular cause. Contrast that to using a bureaucracy defined as "administration marked by hierarchical authority among numerous offices" (www.dictionary.com). In a bureaucracy it is much harder for the lower level people to contribute all of their abilities to the cause becuase management usually only wants what they are hired to do.

2. Have An Abundance Mentality

Many times people wish to withhold information or ideas because they want the credit or payoff for coming up with the idea. However, in an organization or group that is working together in a common cause such a practice can be very detrimental. If everyone held on to their innovative ideas, there would be no innovation. Contrast that with the abuncance mentality where everyone is interested in the progression of the group as a whole and therefore places all their insights, ideas, revelations and stratagies out in the open for everyone to review, critique and synthesize. Such an approach would drastically increase the possibilities and results of any group.

3. Know the Five Engines

In class we talked about the five engines that run any and all organizations which are: people, organization, market, technology, and capital. Any organization can be broken up into these main categories. Organizational communication stratagies are very important in helping these five engines effectively communicate with each other. Fluid communication between thse five engines would help keep the overall goals of the company in perspective and lead to a results driven structure within the organization.