QUOTATION 3
MARVIN BOWER ON WHY MORE COHESION AND LESS HIERARCHY IS REQUIRED IN ORGANISATIONS
Use this to help you break down hierarchical structures and improve organisational cohesion.
Marvin Bower (1903–2003) was an American business theorist, management consultant and the CEO of management consultants McKinsey and Co. He argued that to improve organisational performance:
More cohesion is needed rather than [more] hierarchy.
[What is required is] a network of leaders.
Marvin Bower
It can be argued that the move towards flatter structures during the late 1980s and 1990s has created fewer levels of management within many organisations. However, that does not mean that organisations are any less hierarchal than what existed 40 years ...
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