Summary : we talk a lot about the cases of enterprises without managers, praised for their agility and their effectiveness. Businesses show interest for this kind of model and, as the same time, are scared by it. Some even make fun of such an idea because anyone with common sense knows that no business could [...]
Summary : Can the management innovations we can see in middle-sized structures work into larger businesses ? The question is worth being asked and, at first sight, the answers seems to be no. If we have a closer look at some successful cases, it appears that scaling up may not be the right wat to [...]
Summary : there’s still a large gap between the social media promise and what’s really happening. A gap that’s getter smaller every day but so slowly that many people find it worrying. While large companies still struggle with dealing with their internal contradictions despite of massive investments and fail at mobilizing employees that are mostly [...]
To be honnest, when a friend told me about Ricardo Semler I almost laughed. Who’s Ricard Semler ? A Brasilian CEO who took his father’s little company (turnover of $3 millions in 1984) to an international group, with a turnover of $ 150 millions, 27% annual growth on the last ten years… Impressive ? Especially [...]
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