http://netvouz.com/chokladbollen/tag/military?feed=rss chokladbollen's bookmarks tagged "military" on Netvouz http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network-centric_organization A network-centric organization is a network governance pattern emerging in many progressive 21st century enterprises. This implies new ways of working, with consequences for the enterprise’s infrastructure, processes, people and culture. With a network-centric configuration, knowledge workers are able to create and leverage information to increase competitive advantage through the collaboration of small and agile self-directed teams. For this, the organizational culture needs to change from one solely determined by a command and control, rule-based hierarchy to a hybrid structure which supports loosely-coupled, self-managed teams to make cooperative decisions through the sharing of knowledge. chokladbollen Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:08:52 GMT http://www.amazon.co.uk/Psychology-Military-Incompetence-Norman-Dixon/dp/0712658890 "Everyone who manages anyone should be required to read this book. By focussing on the military Dixon has written a book crammed with examples that show the drastic consequences of incompetence. In management situations it's seldom a matter of life and death (despite the way some bosses act) but the consequences are still there: demotivated, under-utilised, confused and stressed staff. So if you're the boss and this sounds familiar you should read this book and learn it's lessons." chokladbollen Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:22:18 GMT