{"id":58974,"date":"2026-03-29T20:19:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T18:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eefkebodt.com\/?p=58974"},"modified":"2026-08-18T12:16:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T10:16:14","slug":"why-more-control-is-rarely-the-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eefke.aamirhusain.in\/en\/why-more-control-is-rarely-the-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"Why more control is rarely the answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"ember84\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">\u201cYou can\u2019t solve a problem with the same mindset that created it.\u201d \u2014 Albert Einstein<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember85\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">We see that quote so often it\u2019s practically become a clich\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember86\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">But in organizations, that\u2019s exactly the mirror we don\u2019t like to look into.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember87\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">Because when something gets stuck, we usually do\u2026<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember88\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">more of the same.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember89\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">Just faster.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember90\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">Tighter.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember91\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">With extra control, another meeting, another KPI.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember92\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">And then we hope that somehow it\u2019ll finally work.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember93\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\"><strong><em>Sound familiar?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p id=\"ember94\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">The mindset that creates the problem<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember95\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">In many manufacturing companies and logistics environments, \u201csolving\u201d has meant for decades:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>make an analysis<\/li>\n<li>find the cause<\/li>\n<li>take a measure<\/li>\n<li>embed it in a procedure<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"ember97\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">And to be fair: it has delivered a lot. But the landscape is changing.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember98\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eefke.aamirhusain.in\/en\/ai-and-leadership-in-manufacturing\/\"><strong>Today\u2019s problems are less about technology or process<\/strong><\/a>, and much more about behavior, collaboration, trust, and ownership and everything that stays \u201cunder the surface.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember99\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">Exactly the things you can\u2019t engineer away.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember100\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">Why your team \u201cisn\u2019t coming along\u201d (and you get tired)<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember101\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eefke.aamirhusain.in\/en\/best-operator-a-team-leader\/\"><strong>Imagine a team leader notices his people are becoming more and more passive.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"ember102\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">He sets up an extra meeting, tightens the planning, adds KPIs.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember103\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">For a moment it seems to help: things start moving again.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember104\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">But a few weeks later, the same pattern creeps back in.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember105\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">Not because people don\u2019t want to.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember106\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">But because the system has taught them that taking initiative leads to hassle.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember107\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\"><strong><em>The result?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/eefke.aamirhusain.in\/en\/compass-for-leaders-in-the-manufacturing-industry\/\"><strong>\u201cWe want more ownership\u201d<\/strong><\/a> \u2014 but decisions remain top-down.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWe want more collaboration\u201d \u2014 but departments are judged on their own targets.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWe want a feedback culture\u201d \u2014 but the honest conversation still feels risky.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"ember109\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">The harder we try to steer, the less people move. The other mindset<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember110\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">What Einstein is really saying: you have a leap to make.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember111\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">Not to a new tool. But to a new way of looking.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember112\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">From:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>control \u2192 to trust<\/li>\n<li>fixing \u2192 to exploring<\/li>\n<li>faster \u2192 to more honest<\/li>\n<li>steering behavior \u2192 to understanding the layer underneath<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"ember114\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">It starts with one simple question I often put on the table in teams:<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember115\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">\u201cWhat do we keep doing here, over and over again\u2026 while we\u2019re actually saying we want something else?\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember116\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\"><strong><em>There\u2019s gold in that.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p id=\"ember117\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">A small exercise for tomorrow on the shop floor<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember118\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">Pick one problem you\u2019ve been carrying around for a while.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember119\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">And answer these three questions:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>What reflex kicks in for us? (extra control, extra alignment, extra pressure?)<\/li>\n<li>What does that reflex give us in the short term? (calm, overview, a sense of certainty?)<\/li>\n<li>What does it cost us in the long term? (ownership, energy, initiative, trust?)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p id=\"ember121\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">You don\u2019t have to solve it right away.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember122\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">But you do have to dare to see it.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember123\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">Because that\u2019s where change starts.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember124\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">Which \u201creflex\u201d do you see most often in your organization when things get tense?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t solve a problem with the same mindset that created it.\u201d \u2014 Albert Einstein We see that quote so often it\u2019s practically become a clich\u00e9. But in organizations, that\u2019s exactly the mirror we don\u2019t like to look into. Because when something gets stuck, we usually do\u2026 more of the same. Just faster. Tighter. With [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58975,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[254,256,255],"tags":[228,225],"class_list":["post-58974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leadership","category-organisational-change","category-team-development","tag-leidership","tag-methode-eefke-bodt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eefke.aamirhusain.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eefke.aamirhusain.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eefke.aamirhusain.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eefke.aamirhusain.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eefke.aamirhusain.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58974"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eefke.aamirhusain.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61011,"href":"https:\/\/eefke.aamirhusain.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58974\/revisions\/61011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eefke.aamirhusain.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eefke.aamirhusain.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eefke.aamirhusain.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eefke.aamirhusain.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}