WORK WITHOUT MANAGERS -- IT'S ALREADY HAPPENING!

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.