{"id":1455,"date":"2013-08-01T01:29:52","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T06:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=1455"},"modified":"2013-07-16T07:37:48","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T12:37:48","slug":"its-not-the-org-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2013\/08\/its-not-the-org-chart\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Not the Org Chart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>In government, we loved the org chart. We loved it so much that we often forgot that the org chart was not the people.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The org chart is a representation of how we organize persons. The org chart is just a picture, not the reality.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Often, in soft matters, we confuse the picture with the reality.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Accompanying the org chart is a job description of what every person shown in the org chart is supposed to do. Here is a little (not so) secret:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If I don&#8217;t want to do what the job description says, I can not do it (and get away with this malfeasance).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I can stay in my job and ignore the org chart and the job description.<\/p>\n<p>In some organizations, the persons behave like adults. They understand that org charts and job descriptions show ideal situations. They understand that the ideal exists now and then, but not often.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They understand that the persons sitting in the chairs accomplish the work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In my experience, it is much better to work with adults.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips In government, we loved the org chart. We loved it so much that we often forgot that the org chart was not the people. The org chart is a representation of how we organize persons. The org chart is just a picture, not the reality. Often, in soft matters, we confuse the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,58],"tags":[133,178],"class_list":["post-1455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","category-systems","tag-people","tag-systems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1455"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1457,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions\/1457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}