Moving Beyond Your Hierarchy
February 26, 2019
Kaihan Krippendorff
Strategy and Innovation Expert, author of four business strategy books
For years I've sat on the opposing side of hierarchy. That rigid concept in which orders are barked down from above and complied to from below has robbed our corporations, governments, and social institutions of freedom. Many of the management thought-leaders we, at Outthinker, admire argue the same. Gary Hamel, for example, wrote "The real
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