We created the hierarchical, pyramidal, managerial system because we needed it to keep track of people and things people did; with the computer to keep track, we can restructure our institutions horizontally.
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The more we can organize, find and manage information, the more effectively we can function in our modern world.
Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.
The question is: How are you able to organize your information, your tasks, and get stuff done spanning those different roles? Nobody lives in isolation.
What I have done is to show the importance for the working of the economic system of what may be termed the institutional structure of production.
I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.
The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.
All systems are oligarchy. There is no other.
The Internet enables us to share the ideas we have without having to create another hierarchy.
All companies can benefit from fostering a more flexible environment (creating a place where the most talented, industrious, and entrepreneurial people want to work) and relinquishing hierarchical control to favor a results-oriented meritocracy.
It won't do away with hierarchy totally, but the principal leader will be the person who most exemplifies the kind of organization and behavior required who is best able to create the conditions such organizations require.