Why Managers Matter: The Perils of the Bossless Company Foss Nicolai J.
Why Managers Matter: The Perils of the Bossless Company Foss Nicolai J. A manifesto on managers and hierarchy that bucks the trend of the lean, flat, leaderless organizationAs business struggles to…
Specifikacia Why Managers Matter: The Perils of the Bossless Company Foss Nicolai J.
Why Managers Matter: The Perils of the Bossless Company Foss Nicolai J.
A manifesto on managers and hierarchy that bucks the trend of the lean, flat, leaderless organizationAs business struggles to adapt to a rapidly changing world, managers are bombarded with a bewildering array of schemes for how to be a boss and make an organization tick. "Get real," warn Nicolai J. It's tempting to be seduced by futurist fantasies where every company has the culture of a startup, and where employees in wacky, whimsical office settings, liberated from hierarchies and bosses that oppress them, are the foundation for breakthrough performance.
These fads ironically lead to micromanaging and, often, to disaster. Foss and Peter G. Klein. Companies and societies, they show, need authority and hierarchy to coordinate work, including creative work.
And, counterintuitively, Foss and Klein illustrate how the creative use of authority and hierarchy helps companies