The Economist on the Networked Worker and the New Organisation

In “The New Organisation“, the Economist tackles the question of how the workplace has changed in the fifty years since William Whyte’s the Organization Man. I’d like to venture further here and suggest that the 20th century was determined by hierarchies””?Fordist, top-down hierarchies in the first, modern half, Post-Fordist flattened hierarchies in the second, postmodern half””?while the 21st century will be determined by networks. In network culture, your role isn’t so much where you fit into a hierarchy or what you do as an individual, it’s where you stand in the network.
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In “The New Organisation“, the Economist tackles the question of how the workplace has changed in the fifty years since William Whyte’s the Organization Man. I’d like to venture further here and suggest that the 20th century was determined by hierarchies””?Fordist, top-down hierarchies in the first, modern half, Post-Fordist flattened hierarchies in the second, postmodern half””?while the 21st century will be determined by networks. In network culture, your role isn’t so much where you fit into a hierarchy or what you do as an individual, it’s where you stand in the network.
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