Top down why hierarchies are here to stay and how to manage them more effectively
- Boston Harvard Business School Press 2005
- xii, 189 p. ; 25 cm.
Why we don't like hierarchies -- Why hierarchies persist -- Humanizing and systemizing : two routes to organizational Eden -- Three changes that shook the hierarchy -- How big hierarchies cope with change -- The manager's authority : a double edged sword -- Beyond hierarchical authority: the middle manager as leader -- Three lessons every manager/leader ought to learn -- Hierarchies, managers and morality.