Chapter 15. The Boundaryless Organization: Rising to the Challenges of Global Leadership

Ron Ashkenas

David Ulrich

Todd Jick

Steve Kerr

Twenty-first-century business is in the midst of a social and economic revolution, shifting from rigid to permeable structures and processes and creating something new: the boundaryless organization.

Consider these developments, once unimaginable:

  • GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals has cut months out of the drug development process by replacing sequential clinical data collection, analysis, and regulatory reporting with cross-functional teams composed of statisticians, biometricians, clinical trials experts, data management experts, and others.

  • General Electric managers routinely have fifteen to twenty direct reports. Often, ...

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