The Meadow, Not the Machine

About this episode

The episode explores the historical influence of the slaughterhouse on modern organizational structures and questions the future of work beyond factory models.

What does a slaughterhouse have to do with your org chart? In this episode of The Intentional Spill, Yvette and Frank trace one of modernity’s quiet organizational origin stories: Henry Ford borrowing the logic of the slaughterhouse to build the assembly line and, in the process, embedding segmentation, efficiency, and divide-and-conquer thinking into the DNA of our institutions . We’ve been living inside that metaphor ever since. But what if the future isn’t a factory? This Spill introdu...

People in this episode

Hosts: Yvette, Frank

Topics covered

• organizational theory
• assembly line
• efficiency
• modernity
• future of work

Keywords

• organizational origin
• Henry Ford
• slaughterhouse
• assembly line
• efficiency
• future of work

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Henry Ford, assembly line, slaughterhouse, institutions

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