(No, I have no financial interest in this book. I gain nothing but happiness, should you find the book helpful.)

As the title of the book shows, it’s about addressing industry’s problems with disengaged workers. But the good news is that this book is *MOSTLY* about solving the problem — by empowering and enabling workers to find and achieve their own life goals.

Though I can see the theoretical starting points in Schöns Beyond the Stable State and a lot of parallells to modern thinkers about network society and digital tranformation, the usability of the Marshall model is also a question about how spread and used it is? How spread and used is it? Also, are there any academic research made which can confirm the model?

Best regards
Niklas Angmyr
Palorial
@niklas_angmyr
Sweden

Hi David,

Thanks for joining the conversation.

I can’t see any direct connection between Action Logics and the Marshall Model, not least because the one seem to be about individuals and their leadership style, and the other about the collective mindset of an entire social group aka organisation. I’m open to exploring the question further, of course.

I do note that organisations further to the right seem to have a more evolved sense of complexity and its relevance to the way they think about their organisation.

Oh, and btw, I’m pretty much over the whole leadership thing these days. Fellowship seems much more like the way for organisations to go, for me.

– Bob

I was struck by the similarities between your organisational model and the work by David Rooke and Bill Torbert (itself based on Suzanne Cook-Greuther’s work on adult development) on action logics. In particular it seemed to me that the progress to the right in your model and through the stages in Action Logics are predicated on the capacity of the individual/organisation to assimilate and articulate complexity.

Just wondered if you saw any connection and whether you would agree with the observation?

By the way, I also liked your heroes page – there is not much that is truly original and without influence from other thinkers, and it is right to pay homage to people who influence ones thinking.

Thanks for making me think, David