WORK WITHOUT MANAGERS – IT’S ALREADY HAPPENING!
James R. Fisher, Jr., Ph.D.
© May 15, 2014
A READER WRITES:
My current company,
while admittedly small, has no managers.
We have a crew in
Huntsville, Alabama that handles administrative affairs – insurance, healthcare, and billing – and all of the rest of us (50+) work for one
guy.
Sometimes, I don’t speak to him for
a month.
You do your job, and
do it well, or you’re gone. Nothing
personal. Real simple.
DR. FISHER RESPONDS:
Bravo! Thanks for sharing!
History has shown that
cultural and/or operational breakthroughs seldom if ever happen with the
megacorporation.
Breakthroughs are much
more common in the trenches.
They start with small
companies first, and then spread like a prairie fire indiscriminately
across the land and through all barriers to eventually become the norm.
As one reader has put
it with reference to the intransigence of the megacorporation:
"The management
profession (is) failing to move forward with the times, it talks endlessly
about visions and empowerment while refusing to loosen the ‘command and control’
screws even one turn.”
Eventually, the
megacorporation will have no other option then to capitulate.
The Information Age,
along with the Internet and instant broadband communications, has made
management anachronistic and managers atavistic.
That said have do
doubt the megacorporation will be the last to get the message.
It will not occur until entropy creeps in to short-circuit operations, and with it, corporate dominance, throwing activities to the vagaries of impudence and pusillanimity.
Be forewarn. Metadata carries the fear index for the megacorporation.
Stay tuned. History is being made, and this reader is part of
that history.
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