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Re: The economy - a new era?

On Thursday, February 12, 2004 at 13:59:03 (-0500) Doug Henwood writes:
>...
>Do you buy Michael Albert's critique of a "coordinator" class? Could
>you have large enterprises with a flat self-managing structure,
>without some sort of managers?

Why flat?  I mean, if a manager is a coordinator what is wrong with
having a hierarchy?  It's another thing if a manager is also your boss
--- that is where the nastiness comes from, not the tree-like
structure, which in any case could be populated on a rotating basis.

I speak as a manager, and a boss, by the way.


Bill
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