A Management System Exempt from Power

Abstract

Although power was the main organizational issue at stake until recently, it has become the manager’s worst enemy, an old and obso- lete tool and a source of unfairness which creates hatred. Power is the surviving evidence of a bygone age. A management system exempt from power has become the new organizational paradigm, particularly with the increasing number of knowledge workers, whose objectives are to produce ideas rather than obedience. A Management System Exempt from Power suggests a method for increasing and improving this know-how. It is intended for each of us and is about our means to develop the three values of local management – efficiency, empathy and imagination.