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22 Apr 13
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Commitment to democratic principles is often lacking in descriptions of Enterprise 2.0 and social business.
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For management to work in the network era, it needs to embrace democracy, but we are so accustomed to existing structures that many executives would say it is impossible to run a business as a democracy.
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We need to integrate democratic organizing principles into our discussions on Enterprise 2.0 and Social Business.
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Self-governance not only works, it works better than command & control.
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09 Sep 12
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Perhaps hierarchy is a major part of the problem, though. Thomas Malone, in The Future of Work (2004) envisaged four potential organizational models for the network era:
Loose hierarchies
Literal democracy – voting for your boss
Outsourcing through specialized guilds
Markets within organizationsAll of these are democratic to some extent. Malone wrote that we need to move away from Command & Control and toward a Coordinate & Cultivate management model. Is that possible without democracy?
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Let me close with this note from Gwynne Dyer, who wrote that, “Tyranny was the solution to what was essentially a communications problem“.
Modern democracy first appeared in the West only because the West was the first part of the world to develop mass communications. It was a technological advantage, not a cultural one – and as literacy and the technology of mass communications have spread around the world, all the other mass societies have begun to reclaim their heritage too.
We finally have the technology, so that even business no longer needs to be run as a tyranny.
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12 Aug 12
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