August 2000
7 pages
23m
English
Mary Lynn Pulley, John McCarthy, and Sylvester Taylor
A cataclysmic shift, driven by a revolution in technology, is under way in the world of work. Organizations modeled on industrial-age assumptions of control, hierarchy, and clocklike regularity are being eclipsed by flat, networked organizations that change shape and direction faster than ever before. Both organizations and their leaders face a steep learning curve in trying to adapt to this groundswell of change.
To get a sense of how steep the learning curve is, consider the following projections from Forrester Research: