They’re at the Post: Volume 4

They’re at the post is a regular feature of Slacker Manager. In this feature I outline the best management information I encountered over the previous week. Often the information will be blog posts but it will also include other sources of information that can help you to be a better slacker manager.

This week I choose just one item but it will get you thinking about the future of management and what will disappear.

In the future. Gary Hamel is a well known management writer. He posted the following question online with Harvard Business Online: Looking twenty years out into the future, what one characteristic—principle, practice, or structural feature—of the “modern” industrial organization will appear to be the most antiquated or anachronistic?

Click here to read the responses, which include:

• Centralization of decision making.
• The most antiquated characteristic will be a labor force that believes in spending more then 5 years working for any company.
• Rigid organization structures/designs that institutionalize rank, status and privilege

Visit the site to read all the responses and feel free to add your own in our comments section.

David looks forward to seeing where management will be in 2027!

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