Rethinking Hierarchy
We need to reconceive managerial authority for today’s business environment — not eliminate it.
Chris Gash/theispot.com
For all the hype and promise swirling around the idea of eliminating management to create agile, flat organizations, bosses and corporate hierarchies have remained extremely resilient. As we argued in the pages of MIT Sloan Management Review in 2014, under the right conditions, having such hierarchies in place is the best way to handle the coordination and cooperation problems that beset human interactions.1 They allow human intelligence and creativity ...
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