“Command and control is dead”: the shape of next gen organisations is social networks
10 responses to ““Command and control is dead”: the shape of next gen organisations is social networks”
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That Peter Day episode is brilliant (thank you for putting me on to his podcasts a while back).
CEOs just *don’t talk* like this – or rather, they didn’t use to.
And given Cisco’s own performance through dot.com bubble and into the current slide, his message has rather more resonance – file next to Google?
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You’re very welcome, Mr P…
I think this example is hugely interesting both at a macro-level and the personal struggle to change the management habits of a lifetime that Mr Chambers has evidently come through.
Filed very much next to Google.
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Not sure if you could make this stick with your average Japanese or Korean company…. this whole “flat organisation, collaborative management” thread is very Western, and it’s important to realise that the world at large doesn’t always bow down to such ideas. It’s a rich, complex, interesting world out there. There’s no one right answer.
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“Command and control is dead” long live “command and control”…
The answer was that over the past two years Mr Chambers has been tearing down command and control as a way of doing things at Cisco. Why? Because “command and control is dead”…
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