The Corporate Lattice: Achieving High Performance In the Changing World of Work

With roots planted firmly in the industrial age, the corporate ladder has been the metaphor used to describe the prevailing one-size-fits-all model for success. At its heart, the ladder is derived from inflexible, hierarchical, organization models in which prestige, individual rewards, information flow, power and influence are tied to the rung each employee occupies.

Yet the workplace as we know it is in transition -- evolving away from the linear, one-size-fits-all model of the corporate l...