CHAPTER 9

Building an Autonomous Environment

Do you feel a comfort level when working? Is it always clear what you should work on? How you should work? How much decision making is entrusted to you? The actual vision, mission, goals, and values of your organization? What you are striving for yourself? How should you pursue that direction? Is it possible to pursue that direction within your organization?

Autonomy and 21st century knowledge work can’t survive without an autonomous environment.

Managers and leaders have the responsibility to ensure that expectations of autonomous work are understood, organizational direction and goals are clear, and an autonomous mode of work is integrated into the environment. Besides these, a critical component ...

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