Shifting the Meaning of Hierarchy to Community | On Web Strategy | Dion Hinchcliffe
A network of self-interested people organizing dynamically around what needs to be done is more efficient and effective. Forcing work down only…
No Managers? No Hierarchy? No Way! - Forbes
In the discussion of the vast ongoing paradigm shift in management from the slow-moving stifling hierarchical bureaucracies of the 20th Century to…
The Future Of Business: 4 Ways Companies Will Change | Fast Company | Business + Innovation
We've shifted to a business world where collaboration and connection are replacing hierarchy and bureaucracy. The outdated "alpha" notion of…
Why Companies are Not Startups | Steve Blank
Innovation inside of an existing company is much harder than a startup KPI’s and processes are the root cause of corporations’ inability to be agile…
Is Collaboration Limited by Organizational Structure?
We have found some easy fixes (employee social streams), and discovered devilishly difficult challenges (aligned and coordinated, but still…
Retrieving cooperation | Harold Jarche
At a high level, there appear to be three major root causes for why collaboration — the very core of how people come together and function as a…
How to change a company from the inside | Business | theguardian.com
That "send in the entrepreneurs" approach to management already has its own corporate buzzword: "intrapreneurship". Intrapreneurs are supposed to be…
Why Hierarchies Must Sign Their Own Death Warrant To Survive - Forbes
Fairtlough-Three Ways Of Getting Things DoneThe Three Ways of Getting Things Done (2005) by the late Gerard Fairtlough is a little known but…
Social Networks in Cities
The focused organization theory of social ties proposes that the structure of human social networks can be arranged around extra-network foci, which…
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Controlling self-organizing systems is challenging because the system responds to the controller. Here, we develop a model that captures the…