The End of Management

This article, short and sweet as it is, is trying to foresee the future and how management roles will fit into it. The author claims that management as we know it will be drastically different than we know it today. In today’s world large inflexible companies who manage well in an environment of little change can’t keep pace with the companies that don’t have the bureaucratic issues. Its like mini governments trying to get into new fields full bore. The dilemmas that arise as a result from the inability to adjust to the environment around you can lead to less than stellar performance. Larger companies collapse under their own weight. Even Jack Welsh at GE who is considered the last of the last great managers of the modern age made his mark by eliminating unnecessary red tape. I agree to an extent with the author’s position, but I see this really being forced upon the workforce as large companies will tend to underperform, and the diversity of the workforce.

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