(This article has been translated from “Il Sole 24 Ore”, the most important Italian economic newspaper. You can read the original here) The traditional hierarchy is based on the individual. Goals are individual, individual results are evaluated and...
By Marina Capizzi, author of Hierarchy to Die or to Thrive? Companies have been cultivating rationality and efficiency since the industrial revolution, when the ‘science of management’ was born. After more than a century, therefore, management thinking should revolve...
A. C. Edmondson, Franco Angeli, 2020 (Preface of the italian edition written by M. Capizzi, T. Capelli, C. Giardinetti). Amy C. Edmondson‘s new book (Harvard Business School) is out, edited by Franco Angeli. A further step in the evolution of companies. We will be...
Sense & Respond is an easy but revolutionary synthesis. In fact, through many business cases, it shows how the mindset of many organizations was born during the industrial era. That is over. Nothing is the same, even if it may seems so. We’re in the digital era: a...
What can happen if one decides to adopt Holacracy, the most structured alternative to the pyramid, that distributes authority across all Roles? The Eco-Counter experience. L’IMPRESA, N°4, 2018, GRUPPO24ORE Enrico Durbano, aged 41 and born in Saluzzo, was the General...
Beyond the pyramid L’IMPRESA, N°3, 2018, GRUPPO24ORE Companies are beginning to sense that the pyramidal structure no longer works, but they don’t yet know what the alternative might be. Meanwhile, models are being tested out and experience is being garnered. We...
