Gary Hamel (author of The Future of Management), Daniel Pink (author of Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us) and others have reminded us that management in most organizations today is a “technology” that was largely invented in the early 1900′s.  Like most other 100 year old technologies, to remain relevant it needs to be reinvented periodically or replaced entirely by something better.   Daniel Pink writes “We forget sometimes that “management” does not emanate from nature. It’s not like a tree or a river. It’s like a television or a bicycle. It’s something that humans invented. As the strategy guru Gary Hamel has observed, management is a technology. And like Motivation 2.0, it’s a technology that has grown creaky. While some companies have oiled the gears a bit, and plenty more have paid lip service to the same, at its core management hasn’t changed much in a hundred years. Its central ethic remains control; its chief tools remain extrinsic motivators. That leaves it largely out of sync with the non-routine, right-brain abilities on which many of the world’s economies now depend.”