Remember "empowerment?" It's alive and kicking in this article by Jeffrey Pfeffer on “distributed management." An excerpt:
You might be skeptical that such a system can work in a company. But with the Internet linking employees together, distributed corporate management structures are already showing up. At Google, for instance, rather than assigning all responsibility for new products to one person, the company allows any employee to post ideas on an internal website. Colleagues then vote for the ideas they like, so popular projects rise to the top and get strategic attention.
As research by University of Southern California management professor Morgan McCall and others shows, the best way to foster leadership is to treat people like leaders. And how better to do that than by building organizations like Orpheus, where everyone feels in charge? It seems counterintuitive, but by not appointing one leader for every new initiative, you might actually be helping your people make beautiful music together.
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