Hierarchy in organizations is obsolete. There is a better way: going horizontal increases the engagement of employees and managers alike, reduces micromanaging, and promotes organizational and individual success.
Now more than ever, successful organizations must respond quickly and nimbly to change – they need every employee’s best thinking. Self-management expert Samantha Slade presents seven practical, proven and incremental approaches to help your organization create a more dynamic structure and develop a horizontal organization. The result will be enhanced creativity, great growth, increased employee retention, productivity, and resilience.
Samantha Slade
Author
Samantha Slade draws from over 20 years of applied ethnographic research growing her own non-hierarchical organization and supporting other organizations in a dozen countries. She has worked with innovative North American start-ups to the European Commission. She is equally at ease with ambulance dispatchers and coders as human resource professionals and high level decision makers. She speaks from first-hand experience that is relatable and practical.
With a background in Cultural Anthropology and Education, Samantha has been tuned into the subtleties of the way organizations function for a long time. She knows that going horizontal is as much about mindset and culture as it is a structural change. Today, as an international social designer, speaker and consultant Samantha supports teams, organizations and ecosystems to grow their horizontal ways. It doesn’t matter if it is called participatory leadership, co-creation or innovation mindset, it all requires ‘going horizontal’.
Sensing the incapacity of dominant organizational models to carry us into our future, Samantha co-founded Percolab, an international co-creation and co-design firm, in 2007. With her colleagues she pioneers culture-driven practices and operational tools for the future of work. Samantha also co-founded one of the first co-working spaces in Canada.
Samantha believes that organizations can and should be a microcosm of the world we want to live in.
