Boss Quote by Steven Johnson

The net is more than an organizing tool - it has become an organizing model, a blueprint for decentralized but cooperative decision-making. It facilitates…

— Naomi Klein

If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more than elsewhere,…

— Noam Chomsky

“The first duty of the command and control system is to survive,” Baran argued, proposing a distributed network with hundreds or thousands of separate…

— Eric Schlosser

In a dynamic, decentralized system of individual choice and responsibility, people do not have to trust any authority but their own.

— Virginia Postrel

A lot of companies have teams, but they are not really independent. They still have to get stuff approved by the boss. You have…

— Scott Cook

“Leaders are responsible for the design and operation of processes at a higher level of aggregation where others have less perspective and authority.”

— Gene Kim

You won't get cooperation out of a hierarchical system. You get enforced directions from the top, and nothing I know of can run like…

— Bill Mollison

People have the most control over their affairs at the grass-roots level. Anything that can be fairly and efficiently handled at a grass-roots level…

— Peace Pilgrim

The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.

— Robert Conquest

“Network Administrator or the individual responsible for”

— Amazon

I believe that leaders and leadership teams working together in a proper design will run the business more effectively than by hierarchical, command-and-control managing.…

— Marvin Bower

Once you have hierarchy you need rules to protect and administer it, and then you need law and the enforcement of the rules, and…

— William P. Young