Managers Take Responsibility

February 25, 2012
In our OPEN MINDS pieces Should You "Eliminate" Your Managers? all members, Exchanging Managers For Chaos? all members and Managers Need to 'Make The Mission The Boss' all members, we looked at the premise that as the "least efficient activity in your organization", management could be eliminated – originally presented by Gary Hamel in his Harvard Business Review piece, First, Let's Fire All the Managers. And the "no managers" concept continues to generate discussion – most recently in The Sounding Board, the blog of Dr. Gail M. Lawson, the chief executive officer of Sound Community Services.

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