A note inspired by this very good post by Tom Davenport. Not only enterprise 2.0 won’t change hierarchy but also it’s essential it won’t. Pretending to knock down hierarchy is, according to me an heresy, an utopian dream…and something very dangerous.

Hierarchy is essential to any form of organization. The fact is it’s considered responsible for a lo of things it doesn’t have anything to do with. Perharps there has been bad uses of hierarchical power, but hierarchy in itself must endure. The problem of the non-agile and jamed enterpise is not hierarchy but the vision people have of it.

If fact, this debates is the proof we too often mistake the way we decide for the way we work. [Read more...]