Management in business is based on the military command and control model. This has been refined over centuries to ensure compliance, discipline and standard ways of doing things. Often organisations have ‘ideas’ schemes and ‘innovation’ programmes that rely on such structures to assess the idea or the innovation. Those very structures that are designed to limit creativity and variety! We then wonder why few ideas make it all the way through to implementation. Hmm, I wonder.
13 October 2008
Command and Control
Management in business is based on the military command and control model. This has been refined over centuries to ensure compliance, discipline and standard ways of doing things. Often organisations have ‘ideas’ schemes and ‘innovation’ programmes that rely on such structures to assess the idea or the innovation. Those very structures that are designed to limit creativity and variety! We then wonder why few ideas make it all the way through to implementation. Hmm, I wonder.
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