Acknowledgements
PART ONE: THE COMING REVOLUTION
Chapter 1. A Time to Choose
Chapter 2 An Amazing Pattern
Chapter 3 The Amazing Pattern in Business
PART TWO: HOW MANY PEOPLE CAN FIT AT THE CENTER OF AN ORGANIZATION?
Chapter 4 Loosening the Hierarchy
Chapter 5 Harnessing Democracy
Chapter 6 Unleashing Markets
Chapter 7 Bringing Markets Inside
Chapter 8 When Should You Decentralize?
PART THREE: FROM "COMMAND AND CONTROL" TO "COORDINATE AND CULTIVATE"
Chapter 9. Coordinating Activities
Chapter 10. Cultivating People
Chapter 11. Putting Human Values at the Center of Business
Conclusion
Appendix How Do Communication Costs Affect Centralization? A Simple Model
Anonymous
Posted May 23, 2005
Malone gives us the best MIT has to offer in terms of modern organizational theory that works and is changing the face of the way we do business and technology. He uses charts and diagrams to explane the way we are becoming coordinators and what he call democratic organizations that are highly flexible. I especially liked his concept of the Elancer who works for himself on various projects on internet. He has augmented some of the greats in org theory like Mintzberg. I will be able to use some of his bottom up coordination ideas at my workplace to give my staff more control.
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Overview
For more than a decade, business thinkers have theorized about how technology will change the shape of organizations. In this landmark book, renowned organizational theorist Thomas Malone, codirector of MIT's "Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century" initiative, provides the first credible model for actually designing the company of the future. Based on 20 years of groundbreaking research, The Future of Work foresees a workplace revolution that will dramatically change organizational structures and the ...