ABSTRACT

Life allows hierarchical and heterarchical commands. The direction passed from a hierarchical and top-down modality, organized by forehand communication, to a horizontal one, based on constant feedbacks and on the moves of the enemies. This chapter considers the Learning Organization the metaphor that most underlines the co-construction of a cybernetic brain, the chance to build a second order non directive way of leading. It is a horizontal organization which allows to enhance the dialogue among participants and to learn from each other. Systems theory teaches us that every organization is a non-trivial system, dependent on its history. The epistemological choice defines the type of manager a person will be and the type of organizational world that will emerge from his arbitrary choices and from the mandate a manager has received. Every organization is a human community created together that becomes organized by itself, by laws and processes that are no longer under the domain of single individuals.