The Future of Work and Business

How industrial-era management structures hinder work today: "The industrial era approach to getting something done is to first create an organization ... metaphorically still a picture of walls defining who is inside and who is outside a particular box.... This way of thinking was acceptable in repetitive work ... As a result, organizational design created two things: the process chart and reporting lines... we have shifted into a new economy where we don’t know at the outset of some new activity who are the best people to get involved, how the project will proceed, or what the risks are. And the industrial era organization is principally a hindrance, not a support... Knowledge work is not about jobs, but about tasks and interaction between interdependent people... The architecture of work is not the structure of a firm, but the structure of the network. " There's a lot more and it's all good so go read it. - Socialogy Interview: Esko Kilpi — The Future of Work and Business — Medium