Humpty Dumpty? Can Intermingling Currents of Decentralization Capsize a Corporate State?

Can the dark side of innovation survive the gathering mist of decentralization?

William Wallace Denslow, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

I didn’t make a New Year’s Resolution, and I didn’t consciously decide that I would make a concerted effort to self-promote, the force just suddenly took over my consciousness.

When operating a small but very complex business like Andersen Design, one learns to manage on auto. One can pour water in the casting slip without measuring and be right on the mark of the hydrometer reading 99% of the time. or one can forget about something that one is timing without a timer and remember it suddenly at just the right time and one can suddenly decide to self-promote at a moment when the forces converge in one’s favor.

When there are too many functions going on to occupy your conscious mind trust the inherent subliminal management processes because the mind is a very complex organization with many subsidiaries.

Self-promotion kicked in autonomously until the results became overwhelming and I said Stop! WHOA! slow down! it’s been great…