Remote Control – Remarks on Organisation and Leadership in the Covid 19 Crisis
Many organisations are stuck – without reflecting on it – in a spatially defined organisational model of Taylorist shop‐floor management. Leadership at a distance is therefore experienced as an imposition by those involved. The Covid 19 pandemic is currently forcing a completely different practice and thus also a rethinking of leadership and cooperation. Some feel nostalgic for paternalistic leadership. But command and control is suddenly being replaced by connectedness. And this is not bound to spatial proximity, but rather to trust in a common future. … »