Episode #75. From Structure to Flow: How Organizations Evolve Beyond Industrial-Era Mindsets with Dr. Ross Wirth

About this episode

Dr. Ross Wirth discusses how organizations can evolve beyond outdated industrial-era mindsets to embrace adaptability and flow.

Corporations were built for stability, hierarchy, and control—but the world now moves in networks, flows, and continuous change. In this episode of The Value Creators Podcast, Hunter Hastings speaks with Dr. Ross Wirth, a world-renowned organizational transformation expert with decades of experience in the energy industry, in academia, and in hands-on consulting. Wirth explains why “change management” as a project is doomed, why old structures suffocate adaptability, and how radical decentral...

People in this episode

Host: Hunter Hastings

Guest: Dr. Ross Wirth

Topics covered

• organizational transformation
• change management
• adaptability
• decentralization
• industrial-era mindsets

Keywords

• organizational change
• corporate structure
• hierarchy
• networks
• continuous change

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: energy industry, academia

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