A renowned visionary on organizational theory provides the
first workable model for creating—and managing within—the
organization of the future. Malone shows us that our current
notions about decentralization and empowerment merely scratch the
surface of what will be possible as technological and economic
forces render “command and control” management obsolete. In its
place will be a “coordinate and cultivate” approach that will spawn
entirely new types of decentralized organizations—from internal
markets to democracies to loose hierarchies—that reap the scale and
knowledge efficiencies of large organizations while enabling the
freedom, flexibility, and human values that drive smaller
firms.