Heiko Fischer: The Future of Work
Heiko Fischer shares his insights into democratic leadership as new mandate for HR proposing a distributed leadership framework as a bridge from the prevailing command & control paradigm to the future. One that balances the necessities of organisations with the needs and wants of resourceful humans.
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ABOUT Heiko Fischer
“The purpose of a company should be simple. Balance making enough money to turn out meaningful contributions customers care for and employees enjoy creating. The more joy in creating, the better the product, the happier the customer, the more profitable the enterprise.
Heiko is 3rd generation HR and believes the function of HR should become the driver of this balance. ‘As a function, HR is always complaining about not having a seat at the table and on a daily basis does almost everything to make sure that won’t change by hand-holding. His take, enable the organisation to mature and then leave the table! The HR function has to evolve or become irrelevant, like everything else.
His opinion is that HR is too important to be left to a single department. Instead every leader and team should appreciate, understand and apply the HR relevant competencies directly. The agenda became to enable small, self-organising teams to work as an entrepreneurial network.
A pure minimum of core processes and policies, designed together with everybody in the organisation, was devised. What remained was an organisational burrito. Very little wrap, a lot of taste in the middle. The power and tools were literally handed to the teams with the kind request to handle with care. The teams succeeded. The concept of Resourceful Humans (the ‘RH’ way) was born.”
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