New organizational models are needed in all industries because all companies engage in thinking-intensive work. The traditional, hierarchically based 20th-century model is not effective at organizing the thinking-intensive work of self-directed people who need to make subjective judgments based upon their own special knowledge. Such people work in all companies, in all industries, and in [...]
In over the years, it’s become increasingly clear to me that organizations do not have innovation DNA. They don’t have adaptability DNA. This realization inevitably led me back to a fundamental question: what problem was management invented to solve, anyway?
When you read the history of management and of early pioneers like Frederick Taylor, you realize [...]
Against the backdrop of the digital age’s dramatic technological change, ongoing globalization, and the declining predictability of strategic-planning models, only new approaches to managing employees and organizing talent to maximize wealth creation will provide companies with a durable competitive advantage. It won’t be easy. As companies discard decades of management orthodoxy, they will have to [...]
Le dichiarazioni del Ministro Padoa Schioppa rilasciate a Bruxelles ieri 12 novembre a margine dell’ Eurogruppo a Bruxelles, parlando delle stime di crescita dell’Italia.
«La sensazione che andiamo verso un periodo con un rischio di peggioramento delle previsioni è diffusa». Il ministro ha aggiunto, che «il paese continua a perdere competitivitá». Padoa-Schioppa ha poi ribadito che [...]