The End of Management - Hardcover

Thomas Pyzdek

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0967071100 ISBN 13: 9780967071107

Publisher: Atlantis Pub, 1999

Synopsis

This book shows you how, by applying newly discovered scientific principles from the field of complexity theory, you can create hyper-productive business organizations that exhibit the same unplanned order seen in natural systems and free societies. These Spontaneous Enterprises, like the credit card giant Visa, will exceed the productivity and growth of managed enterprises by as great a margin as free economies outperform planned economies. And for precisely the same reasons.

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From the Publisher

Downsizing, restructuring, mergers and acquisitions. Where will it all end? This book offers a shocking answer: it ends with the total elimination of management. The corporate world isn't restructuring, it is destructuring.

From the Author

A great experiment in human organization is currently in progress. Nucor Steel runs a $4 billion per year business with only twenty-two executives and four levels of management. Brazil's Semco stripped five layers from its management while increasing worker productivity by over 900%. W.L. Gore has operated with no hierarchy at all since 1957. The privately held pipeline giant Koch Industries uses the principles of the free market to run it's vast enterprise which exceeds McDonalds in annual sales. As layer after layer of hierarchy is stripped away, the results consistently show greater productivity, improved flexibility, higher returns for investors and greater customer choice. Step by step the business world comes closer to the inevitable conclusion, namely, to paraphrase Thomas Jefferson, that management is best which manages not at all.

About this edition

• Publisher: Atlantis Pub
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0967071100
• ISBN 13: 9780967071107
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 168