• Many organizational theories implicitly assume the basic premise that “a contract of employment keeps you on the clock about five days a week, and that you have a boss and subordinates, and the boss has the right of command.”
  • As Drucker points out, expert groups are hard to govern that way. - Drucker. The knowledge society is not a society of bosses and subordinates.
  • So, rather, it is the volunteer organizations and open source communities, etc., where there is no pay, no restraints, no command authority, etc., that can be helpful.
  • If you remove that condition, Survival of the human spirit is more important to the survival of the organization.
    • When people’s hearts and minds don’t survive in a for-profit company, job turnover jumps and the money is damaged.

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