{"id":155822,"date":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writemyessayfree.com\/if-youre-thinking-about-your-organization-or-any-organization-as-a-machine-what-features-of-it-might-be-considered-as-the-equivalent-of-the-control-switches"},"modified":"2017-08-17T18:31:53","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T18:31:53","slug":"if-youre-thinking-about-your-organization-or-any-organization-as-a-machine-what-features-of-it-might-be-considered-as-the-equivalent-of-the-control-switches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/if-youre-thinking-about-your-organization-or-any-organization-as-a-machine-what-features-of-it-might-be-considered-as-the-equivalent-of-the-control-switches\/","title":{"rendered":"If you\u2019re thinking about your organization \u2014 or any organization \u2014 as a machine, what features of it might be considered as the equivalent of the control switches?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the useful aspects of a \u201cmachine\u201d is that it usually has a way to turn it on or off, and some more or less relatively easy controls to make it behave. When we think about an organization as a machine, it\u2019s not so easy to visualize what the \u201cswitches\u201d might be.<\/p>\n<p>1. If you\u2019re thinking about your organization \u2014 or any organization \u2014 as a machine, what features of it might be considered as the equivalent of the control switches?<\/p>\n<p>2. In other words, how do its managers \u201ctune its performance\u201d to make it behave like a good smoothly-functioning machine?<\/p>\n<p>3. What are the \u201clevers\u201d that get pulled to keep the components working together?<\/p>\n<p>4. And does thinking about such organizational controls as \u201cswitches\u201d or \u201clevers\u201d help you understand how they\u2019re being used, or does it just confuse the issue?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the useful aspects of a \u201cmachine\u201d is that it usually has a way to turn it on or off, and some more or less relatively easy controls to make it behave. When we think about an organization as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/if-youre-thinking-about-your-organization-or-any-organization-as-a-machine-what-features-of-it-might-be-considered-as-the-equivalent-of-the-control-switches\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}