Britt Blaser holds forth in a great post on the effects of transparency (enabled by technology and interconnected minds) on command-and-control.
It’s Transparent, See?
Transparency: a manager’s nightmare. With transparency comes accountability and its twin scourge, responsibility. No manager wants to be subject to the kind of scrutiny that s/he imposes on the people at the next level down.
Leaders, however, welcome visibility because a leader’s genius is exposing the group’s core values and expressing its beliefs.
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