Sep
8
Networks – the greatest development in management since Corporations
Filed Under Business Ideas, Resources, Principles, etc.
“Networking is lots more than a metaphysical idea, a technological phenomenon, or a hot industry. It is the most important development in management since DuPont, General Motors, and others invented the modern corporations–with its headquarters officers and staff, multiple divisions, and functional departments–before World War II. Where once there were pyramids, bosses, departments, troops, now there are webs, nodes, clusters, flocks. In companies whose wealth is intellectual capital, networks, rather than hierarchies, are the right organizational design.”
–Thomas A. Stewart, Intellectual Capital: The New Wealth of Organizations
I think FamilyLearn, with our efforts with Personal Historians, is moving to a networking model.