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Who built the Pyramids…?
Back in the “old days” when businesses were structured around traditional hierarchies, a company would take pride in being able to undertake all activities in-house. I can recall working for an industrial group that had its own forests for wood production, made its own machines, built its own vehicles for delivery and even had its own aircraft to transport the Directors around…
In 1911 in his book Political Parties, Robert Michels developed the theory of the Iron Law of Oligarchy. In the book he states that regardless of how democratic they may start out, all organisations will eventually become oligarchies. As organisations became larger throughout the 20th century they had to form a multi layered bureaucracy in order to...
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