What would you see if you could view your organization through a lens that revealed the invisible forces pulling in separate directions while, paradoxically, working towards the same goal?

This is a talk about a process that we’ve seen many times throughout history, but rarely named. We’ve seen it in politics, industry and X. It shows up as a story of a struggle between two kinds of powers. That of 'movement' against that of 'structure'. Guided by the concepts and ideas of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, we explore the dynamics between these two organizing logics that they call The State and The War Machine. We use the Agile movement as a historical example to establish the concepts in reality and then move on to see how it plays out in different places and on different scales in organizations.

*Why is it so hard to define what an Engineering Manager is?
*Can you measure culture?
*Why do so many organizations reach for OKR?
*How can you tell if you are Agile?
*How do we achieve Aligned Autonomy?
*Why does more detailed planning result in less accurate predictions?

The point is not that either logic is superior to the other, they have different contextual utility. State Technologies enable scale and efficiency, while Nomadic Sciences allow adaptability and movement. With these dynamics in view, it then becomes a question of practice how to participate in relation to these forces. When do we begin to capture what is moving, and when do we protect the freedom to keep moving?

After all, there can be no leadership without management and no management without leadership, and this can serve as an explanation why.