Image credit: https://elearningindustry.com/reasons-why-talent-development-is-important Happy New Year! Ram Charan and I co-authored an article just out in this month’s Harvard Business Review about how technology is creating the conditions for what we call the “permissionless” corporation. In it, we suggest that corporations organized like conventional bureaucracies are going to give way to organizations that have figured out new ways of working.
This is just a rhetorical question/observation, but what if the organization is governmental? I work for State government at the moment, and, wow, the bureaucracy! I have to get approval for BUDGETED expenses, let alone unbudgeted. It's unlikely that a State or Town or other large civic organization will go extinct (said many people in Rome), so what is the nature of the damage wrought by the destructive tendencies of bureaucracy to our civic longevity? And is there any possibility of the emergence of permissionless (or less permission-heavy) practices in civic organizations? Is there any way for public life to become competitive in any arena other than the political?
This is just a rhetorical question/observation, but what if the organization is governmental? I work for State government at the moment, and, wow, the bureaucracy! I have to get approval for BUDGETED expenses, let alone unbudgeted. It's unlikely that a State or Town or other large civic organization will go extinct (said many people in Rome), so what is the nature of the damage wrought by the destructive tendencies of bureaucracy to our civic longevity? And is there any possibility of the emergence of permissionless (or less permission-heavy) practices in civic organizations? Is there any way for public life to become competitive in any arena other than the political?