Post-Taylorism — Management in the New Global Context: The New Principles of Management for the 21st Century

POST-TAYLORISM – Management in the New Global Context
For more than a century, we have managed organizations according to principles developed for an industrial world: hierarchy, specialization, standardization, control, predictability, and efficiency.
This model transformed businesses, economies, and societies. But the world it was designed for no longer exists.
We now operate in an environment shaped by Artificial Intelligence, data, technological acceleration, shifting geopolitical dynamics, the energy transition, demographic and social changes, sustainability, networks, platforms, and ecosystems. A world where change is constant, intelligence is distributed, and competitive advantages are increasingly short-lived.
How do we manage organizations when there is no longer enough predictability to simply plan, control, and execute?
Post-Taylorism proposes a new architecture for management.
It does not mean abandoning efficiency. It means complementing it with adaptability, learning, intelligence, experimentation, collaboration, and the ability to anticipate change.
Throughout this book, Luis Rasquilha traces the evolution of management from Frederick Taylor to the age of Artificial Intelligence, presenting principles, models, and frameworks for building organizations prepared for 2040.
Foresight and Scenarios. Trends and TrendsInnovation. Foresight-Driven Strategy. Organizational Ambidexterity — Exploit + Explore. Data and AI. Nexialism. Ecosystems. New approaches to leadership, culture, talent, innovation, and organizational design.
More than explaining what is changing, this book seeks to answer one essential question:
How can we transform an organization designed to execute the past into one capable of shaping the future?
Post-Taylorism is an invitation to leaders, executives, entrepreneurs, board members, and professionals to rethink the organizations they lead — and begin the transition from Taylor's One Best Way to a new management mindset:
NEXT BEST WAY.
Because, in the new global context, efficiency alone is no longer enough.
Organizations must execute in the present, anticipate possibilities, learn continuously, and adapt before change forces them to do so.
PERFORMANCE + ADAPTABILITY + PREPAREDNESS = LONGEVITY