“ Chambers wants nothing less than a total redesign of the corporation as we know it
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How Cisco’s CEO John Chambers is Turning the Tech Giant Socialist
Despite the absolutely moronic title of this article, this is a must read for “organization design”/startup geeks. Long CSCO. Waaaaay long:
They were inspired in part, Ricci says, by management guru Gary Hamel’s ideas about the need to democratize strategy and distribute leadership in order to stimulate innovation. “One of the traditional ways you define power in a big corporation is by the resources you control,” Ricci says. “It’s one of the evil characteristics of corporations. If you control resources for your unilateral use, you can move away from the greater whole, even if you make good decisions. Now we believe it’s about learning to bring resources together to the table with groups.”
