CHAPTER 15
Specialization Blows Hierarchies Apart, Showering the World with Entrepreneurial Opportunities
The enormous productivity improvement offered by specialization, also known as the division of labor, is the economic driving force behind the relentless disaggregation of tasks. Without specialization, there is no impetus to “give birth” to a new firm outside of our current hierarchy. This possibility of disaggregation is what gets our budding entrepreneurs out of bed.
WHAT IS SPECIALIZATION (DIVISION OF LABOR)?
Division of labor is “the assignment of different parts of a process or task to different people in order to improve efficiency.”* Specialization means that different people or groups undertake different tasks rather than one person ...
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