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When I think about Morning Star and St Luke, I begin to remember reading articles about their unusual ways to success. St Luke and Morning Star are two successful companies in which control from management barely exists, its almost nonexistence. These two companies believe in complete employee empowerment. It can almost be said that the employees own the company, as they do their own hiring, strategy development, innovation, budgeting, and so on. By creating such a company where management does not have control of the organization but rather gives the freedom to employees to create the path of success of the organization, it creates a culture that truly nurtures creativity and employee empowerment.

Therefore, when I think of a company that has a similar image to St Luke and Morning Star’s culture, I think of Google. In my opinion, Google has the type of culture that seems chaotic, as there is no control from management. But even though it seems chaotic, it is actually an ordered chaos culture where there is creativity and employee empowerment. Google helps it’s employees unlock their true creative potentials by allowing them to take up their own task. That is, out of the tasks that need to be completed, employees can sign up for the tasks they wish to complete.

Reflecting on the complex adaptive system of these 3 companies, I believe one of the implications is that employee empowerment, creativity, and freedom from control is truly the new approach to organizational success. I think organizations need to restructure their business in a way that allows creativity to flow and for management to empower employees into making key decisions in the organization’s behalf. Organizations need to create a culture in which creativity is nurture and employees believe in the organization’s mission, goals, product, etc. These new types of organizations have the power to sense, respond, and adapt more quickly to the ever-changing environment of the organization.

The implication for my past organization is that it should soon begin to update its organizational structure to one that nurtures creativity, employee empowerment, and adaptation. Continuing to do business by controlling, managing all employees and changes, the company may soon begin to fail. In my opinion, there are many external forces that cannot be controlled and by managing a company in which everything must be controlled, it will often create a sense of chaos to employees and managers. This will also diminish any level of creativity and adaptive sense the company may still have left. In order to create appropriate action to boost the organization forward, the organization must first reorganize its structure. Meaning, it must first become a little flatter in order to give more decision-making power to employees, employee empowerment. Another option that can help the organization forward is through seminars (with follow-ups) that concentrate on teaching leaders how to adapt to the changing environment, how to be better leaders inside their organization, how to empower employees to decision-making, and so on.