Sadly, the hierarchical school of management always did charge people at higher levels with success of the whole venture. Current business leaders seem to have forgotten their responsibilities. Blaming the loss of a battle on the lowest foot soldier displays the ignorance of why they were appointed.

Anyway, I think the internet makes them increasingly irrelevant. People ’sitting’ in positions will be outrun by people using the internet to organize. In time they may find ways to entrench themselves. Right now we are in a phase of business by the people, for the people and with the people.

Nice to see you around again!

You bring up an interesting point regarding mobilization (on the psychology of motivation?) and its’ lack of coverage in the blogosphere.

Regarding organizations, my experience with work has been that the resultant errors on a macro-level is a systematic problem and not the people.

Execs and management have a tendency to blame the employees when things aren’t right because they don’t want to admit that the system they created was the real issue.

And perhaps that points to an underlying problem with the way traditional business is conducted… i.e. a hierarchy.