Emergent Approach Proponents of the emergent approach point out the elemental differences of their perspective than the planning camp, citing empowerment, open cultures and bottom-up emphasis as evidence of their claims. In reality, the differences are arguably less than they may have realized. But first, let us review the ideas. Culture-Excellence Ideas In the early [...] [...]
The Evolving Landscape of the Organization
Taylor and Weber brought statistics to management. Unfortunately their concepts often also engendered an unhealthy and unproductive chasm between the new management positions it implied and the workers it no longer asked to think. [...]
Technology as a Symbol of Organizational Structure
Organizations both in their structure and their strategy often make bets against the individual, and they continue to do so in pendulum like swings in both micro and macro trends. Like the computer hardware industry, they always eventually lose. [...]
A new application of Maslow
Maslow transformed marketing. But his Hierarchy of Needs can also instruct organizational structure. [...]
Command and Control Hierarchies
Organizations are notoriously hierarchical or top-down given principally two age-old models; the family and the military. Both are instructive models in their own right. We’ve just learned the wrong lessons from them. [...]
