October 2009
Intermediate to advanced
448 pages
8h 21m
English
Fleas can jump many times their own height, but not elephants.
Large organizations cannot be versatile. A large organization is effective through its mass rather than through its agility. Mass enables the organization to put to work a great many more kinds of knowledge and skill than could possibly be combined in any one person or small group. But mass is also a limitation. An organization, no matter what it would like to do, can only do a small number of tasks at any one time. This is not something that better organization or “effective communications” can cure. The law of organization is concentration.
Yet modern organization must be capable of change. Indeed it must be capable of initiating change, that ...
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