Deep leadership provides the social glue keeping high-variety organizations together

Abstract

The dramatic subtitle of the classic 1963 book Organizational Choice by Eric Trist and colleagues, which tells the story of the spontaneous bottom-up decentralization into leaderless autonomous groups that occurred in the 1950s in some British coal mines, the subject of our second case study in Chapter 4, is The Loss, Re-Discovery & Transformation of a Work Tradition. This same subtitle would be quite appropriate to a more contemporary story, this time in the home health care business in The Netherlands. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.