May 31, 2005
Single leader decision-making now obsolete
Harvard Business Review June 2005
The author contrasts the complexity of the organisations we inhabit today with with the groups our Stone Age forebears lived in a hundred thousand years ago.
He concludes that we have now outgrown the 'instinctive faith in hierarchical leadership which is baked in our genes' as the dominant organisational decision-making model.
This resonates with the self-managed bioteaming approach to organisational teams
Posted by Ken Thompson on May 31, 2005 at 11:02 PM in New Practices | Permalink | Comments (0)