hi folks

After having stuck my neck out and put my foot in my mouth (pretty
difficult thing to do simultaneously, but somehow I always manage to
get into these situations ;-)) I actually heaved a sigh of relief
when Amita posted her views...!

Maybe the future isn't so close really !

Sure, organizations aren't going to go away in a hurry (no matter
what the folks at WSF fervently hope for !) and neither are they
going to get smaller (on the contrary some of them are going to get
bigger!)

So I'll tap the thoughts of two 'original' gurus (and escape from the
burden of 'guruism' that Rajeev had thrust on me !)

One is Charles Handy who has written on "the elephant and the flea"
which refers to large organizations and free agents who are co-opted
by them to drive bursts of creativity...In fact BusinessWorld had
profiled Handy's thoughts...but as they pointed out not everyone is a
flea...some of us have to be content to be parts of the elephant
(man! some metaphor this !)

In fact, our very own Dr. Madhukar Shukla had written in Business
Today 1999 on "careers moving out of organizational boundaries and
becoming vocations"...that applies to the free agents, the fleas!

Another person I'd like to quote is a 'guru' who has done something
most gurus, haven't: run a company on radically different rules and
create the true 'virtual enterprise'...have you all heard of Dee Hock?

No? Ok read about him and his mission now, here
http://www.fastcompany.com/online/05/deehock.html

But, boy, Amrita...am I glad that you pushed the future far away !

ciao,
Gautam
http://gauteg.blogspot.com - News and Musings on Management

--- In IndiaStrategy-ThinkTank@..., Rahul Deodhar
<rahuldeodhar@y...> wrote:
> Gautam, Amita and Co.
> So, I believe, the building blocks of organisations are teams(set
of relationships) rather than individuals. Hence new age
organisations will be based on sets of values and attitudes rather
than pure knowledge.
>