Current Affairs: March 2004 Archives
In his new book The Future of Work, MIT professor Thomas Malone argues that in the future, high tech and knowledge-based businesses will likely be run as loose hierarchies or self-managed democracies. Skilled workers will organize, disband, and regroup around different assembly projects, much as film and construction workers do today. Even cars will be designed by competing teams of freelancers, giving automakers a choice of, say, fuel cells or solar cells.
Malone writes, "We are on the verge of a new world of work, in which many organizations will no longer have a center at all -- or, more precisely, in which they'll have almost as many 'centers' as they have people." In response, he suggests, managers will need to shift from a command-and-control style to a coordinate-and-cultivate mode.
[Source: Boston Globe]
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'ELEVATED' => 'yellow',
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