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## Organizational Tension Processing - Driving Change in Self-Organizing Companies

DevFeed: [Organizational Tension Processing - Driving Change in Self-Organizing Companies](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/organizational-tension-processing-driving-change-in-self-organizing-companies-39933.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://mende.io/blog/organizational-tension-processing-driving-change-in-self-organizing-companies/>)

Author: tobi@techunicorn.builders (Tobias Mende)

Published: 2024-10-05T05:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Tobias Mende](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/tobias-mende.md>)

Topics: [structure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/structure.md>), [Processes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/processes.md>)

Tags: [business-culture-employee-happiness-high-purpose-environments-leadership-developer-productivity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/business-culture-employee-happiness-high-purpose-environments-leadership-developer-productivity.md>), [change](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/change.md>), [hierarchy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hierarchy.md>), [organizational](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/organizational.md>), [organizations](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/organizations.md>), [processes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/processes.md>), [product-development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/product-development.md>), [self-organizing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/self-organizing.md>), [structure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/structure.md>)

### AI overview

The article explains that self-organizing companies are not structureless or chaotic despite having no traditional people hierarchy. It discusses using a tension-based proposal process to adjust structures, processes, and goals while enabling employees to surface and implement ideas and support faster organizational change.

### Source excerpt

Organizational Tension Processing - Driving Change in Self-Organizing Companies Newcomers to self-organization often mistake the lack of a people-hierarchy for complete chaos. The term "flat" can be misleading, as it suggests that self-organizing companies lack any structure. In reality, this is far from the case.