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A Company Without Job Titles Will Still Have Hierarchies

Harvard Business Review

The term “holarchy” made its debut in Ghost in the Machine , a analysis of the human brain and its failings penned by Arthur Koestler in 1967. The social animals who travel in packs care about two things: First, who is dominant? Think of it as management operating system 3.0. It’s not a new concept. And second, who likes me?

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Why Peter Drucker’s Writing Still Feels So Relevant

Harvard Business Review

We can also think of Peter Drucker as a time traveler, not only because he had an encyclopedic knowledge of historical facts, but because he could place contemporary events into historical context and infer future developments. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 8th Global Drucker Forum.