Stills from ‘Knowledge of People’ the corporate story performed by Rense Royaards, actor, The Work Theatre Text by Peter Verburgt, Senior Advisor, Total Identity
But hierarchy, in your eyes, kills efficiency, kills your own creativity. So... couldn’t we go back to having leaders, instead of managers—leaders that encourage and motivate people to take local decisions and develop initiatives? Reinventing and recreating yourself over and over, becoming better in conceiving and developing ideas. It takes collaboration, outsourcing and discussions among yourselves, inventing and coming up with intelligent and original ideas. You plan to discuss things again, to combine pragmatism and inspiration. You will initiate dialogue inside the office, which is even more important than dialogue between the various offices. It is inconceivable that you no longer know your colleagues and have no idea about what’s going on elsewhere. Words escape you. You imagine an entity that is self-aware. Supervising people so their authenticity can develop further—that’s what it is about. Serving clients optimally because disciplines from HRM are integrated into HRD. Thinking from the inside to the outside, from the outside to the inside. Breathing, taking it in, exercising influence, sharing your knowledge, developing your knowledge. Making our way together into the future. Sharing your knowledge, developing your knowledge, making our way together into the future, breathing, taking it in, exercising influence, sharing your knowledge, developing your knowledge. Making our way together into the future... making our way together into the future.