Will The New DSO Leadership Model That Bayer Pharmaceuticals Is Transitioning To Work?

Some Extremely Important Considerations On Dynamic Shared Ownership

I was perusing LinkedIn earlier today, and I saw an interesting post that caught my attention.

It discussed how Bill Anderson, CEO of Bayer Pharmaceuticals, is moving to a different model of Leadership called Dynamic Shared Ownership (DSO).

In this move, Anderson Laid Off 40% of Middle Managers.

I decided to look a bit into the article that was provided to see what this was about.

There was a link to a Medium article by Gianluca Radesich that I read.

Now, the first thing that I noticed is that the author works in the Pharmaceutical Industry.

This means there could be some conflicts of interest within the Article (Though they appear to work for a different company, so maybe not).

However, let’s look at what some of the claimed Merits of the DSO Model are here, as well as some Potential Problems to be aware of.

Potential Merits

Slow Hierarchies

There is a known issue in MANY Businesses that the Larger the Hierarchy gets, the…