Ducks in a Row: The End of Management
by Miki Saxon
Saturday an article appeared in the Wall Street Journal entitled The End of Management and I planned a commentary on it today.
Corporations, whose leaders portray themselves as champions of the free market, were in fact created to circumvent that market.
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Corporations are bureaucracies and managers are bureaucrats. Their fundamental tendency is toward self-perpetuation. They are, almost by definition, resistant to change. They were designed and tasked, not with reinforcing market forces, but with supplanting and even resisting the market.
But when a blogger I respect writes an excellent post poking the same holes I would have poked, then it seems a waste of effort to reinvent that particular wheel.
So first read The End of Management and then click over and read Wally Bock’s comments.
Time well spent—I guarantee it.
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