Stiletto Network

Collaboration and Authenticity

At least in part because of the Great Recession, a new management style is also taking root—one that is flat and nonhierarchical and integrates input from many different sources. “The nature of work is much more about collaboration than it’s ever been in the past. Younger companies have to outsource and partner because they don’t have the resources to do everything in-house. And major corporations are sticking to their core businesses and outsourcing noncore activities,” says Connie Duckworth, the founder and CEO of ARZU, Inc., a social business enterprise working in Afghanistan, who was also the first female sales and trading partner in the history of Goldman Sachs. “In virtually every field, there are fewer and ...