The plane that was flown by 500 pilots

This week, we will cover the second feature of “Intelligent/Organic enterprises”, after last week’s “Strong and shared sense of Purpose”. A permanent feedback loop: Staying with the human body metaphor: the only way to compensate for the lack of a centralized...

"From pyramidal to organic structures"

I hope to have made the point by now that, in order to strive in the fast changing “Open Network Economy”, we should not rely on the traditional, pyramidal, leaders-dependent organizations but rather start design “intelligent organizations”. In other terms, we must...

Why I can’t agree with Groucho Marx

Still in “The starfish and the spider: the unstoppable power of leaderless organizations”[1], Brafman and Beckstrom report the story of Dave Garrison, CEO of Netcom (one of the first Internet Service Provider firm) in 1995 who was on his way to a road show to get...