Since the early days of the web, and even more so with the advent of social media, there has been widespread talk of the promise of a horizontal world, free from traditional hierarchies, where speech would flow freely and whose foundations would be trust and recognition. Everyone would be able to speak out, be heard, influence and weigh in on public or internal debates, without any authority filtering or organizing the exchanges. The web, and then social networks, would have achieved what decades of sociology and democratic demands had failed to...
We thought we had replaced the power of the boss with highly rational approaches, particularly those based on data. A century of management science,...
Henri Fayol did not know agile organizations, collaborative platforms, or artificial intelligence, yet his name and work continue to be cited in management courses....
Hierarchy as a factor of organizational complication
When we talk about pyramids, we're of course talking about the hierarchical pyramid, which is the culprit behind...
Digital transformation is not a customer-facing program only. As a matter of fact, organizations will have to reinvent themselves internally too for the same...