Posts Tagged ‘beckstrom’
Starfish vs Spiders
Handy (1998) stood at the beginning of The Age of Unreason. Twelve years later we’re living in the midst of it. Organizations have had to adapt the traditional organizational chart in a number of ways. Handy (1998) predicted shamrock organizations, heavy on freelancers and part-timers, and federal organizations, of small-united divisions with a central core). [...]
Book Review: The Starfish and the Spider
Why is the greatest military in the history of the world still fighting a war against a network of terrorists who can barely communicate from cave to cave? Why can’t a team of the highest-priced lawyers stop teenagers from downloading free music via peer-to-peer software? In The Starfish and the Spider, Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom [...]

