The company of the future: liberating the workplace

This article argues that companies should re-examine traditional notions of what careers and work actually mean, and adapt old-fashioned conceptions to the present day.

The company of the future: liberating the workplace

Jules GoddardLondon Business School

Managerialism, as the dominant workplace model, is responsible for increasing levels of dissatisfaction. Jules Goddard analyses why this is the case and outlines the three great challenges facing business today: to create a commercial culture in which capital is more patient, work is more variegated and entrepreneurship is more mainstream.

Anyone listening in on the conversations of executives over the past ten or 20 years cannot help but have noticed that managerialism – the art of getting things done by and through other people – is the...

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