Is your boss addicted to hierarchy?

摘要

In today's management world hierarchy is the only form of career structure for many employees but, for young people in these dynamic and changing times this will not work. So says Gerard Fairtlough who was CEO of Shell Chemicals and founder of the biopharmaceuticals company Celltech. In his book 'The Three Ways of Getting Things Done' he argues that we accept hierarchy because it has come to us through history, the autocracy of kings and emperors, monotheistic religions where the boss really is the boss, and via business and societal patriarchs. Indeed, in its very origin a hierarch is chief priest. It has become engrained in our thinking. If a company has a problem we bring in a new a boss, a heavy hitter.