Via Business Insider:
Most of us, write Ray Fisman and Tim Sullivan in their new book The Org: The Underlying Logic Of The Office, "imagine a world without managers as a kind of paradise where workers are unshackled by pointless bureaucracy… a place where stuff actually gets done". Strangely, managers tend to agree.
Points:
- “What employees see as "pointless bureaucracy" is a company acting rationally to survive. There are bad managers, of course – but at least some of the bureaucratic crap, from this perspective, is intrinsic. Remove it and the organization collapses.”
- “Get real, Fisman and Sullivan say: much of what we object to is just what happens when groups work together. If you really can't stand bureaucracy, there's self-employment, which brings different hassles, or working only for small organisations. But don't hanker for organizational life without management nonsense. That can't exist – and surely it's better to make career decisions on the basis of that reality.”
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