Release the entrepreneurial hostages from your corporate hierarchy

Abstract

As competitive pressures increase, top‐level managers in many companies have recognized the need to rebuild initiative, creativity, and drive in the front‐line units of their organizations. Under the banner of “inverting the pyramid,” they delayered and destaffed, and invested significant amounts of money and management time to cascade the message of empowerment throughout their companies. Yet, in most instances, after the dust settled, they found that how the company functioned did not change because the behaviors of its people did not change.

Citation

Bartlett, C.A. and Goshal, S. (1996), "Release the entrepreneurial hostages from your corporate hierarchy", Strategy & Leadership, Vol. 24 No. 4, pp. 36-42. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb054563