Advancement Quote by Kevin Allen

I think maybe 50 years ago people and businesses felt like they had to choose between maximizing profits and making customers happy or making…

— Tony Hsieh

“As the old-school approach of command-and-control leadership fades, companies in all industries will inevitably move in the same direction as these tech firms, and…

— Adam Bryant

The idea that, in the age of Google, Facebook and the internet, government can control the 'commanding heights' of the economy is one of…

— Kwasi Kwarteng

One of the challenges associated with a company becoming large is that companies become hierarchical. They become bureaucratic. They become slow. They become risk…

— Kenneth C. Frazier

Startups are transforming our society. Over the past 100 years, we've gone from an industrial era, where a hierarchical structure dominated business and society,…

— Brad Feld

Some of the power has shifted from companies to people. Using social media tools (blogs, wikis, tagging, etc.) more individuals are creating semi-spontaneous 'groundswells'…

— Charlene Li

With the never-ending stream of new social technologies, apps and platforms rolling out every day, its easy to get lost in the minutiae of…

— Simon Mainwaring

“After years of operating in a top-down manner that emphasizes control and conformance, organizations are rife with obstacles to bottom-up ideas that front-line staff…

— Alan G. Robinson

Our top-down pyramid style of management is a very old concept borrowed from centuries of war and monarchies.

— James Hunter

While companies were getting comfy cozy with the idea of being on social media platforms, social media transcended those platforms, and few businesses have…

— Gary Vaynerchuk

No surprise that, as companies have adopted social media en masse, demand for software and applications to manage and monitor social use has exploded.

— Ryan Holmes

Throughout the 20th century, we created wealth through vertically integrated corporations. Now, we create wealth through networks. We are at a turning point in…

— Don Tapscott