Building and Leading Teams:Engineering a New Paradigm

The business world of today is changing at Internet speed. In a historical flash, we have seen organizations reengineered, flattened, and redeployed. We have witnessed the stampede to the Internet and the dot-com crash. The new economy is giving way to the next economy right in front of our eyes. The result of these economic forces is that hundreds of thousands of jobs have been eliminated, layers of management have been removed, and companies have repeatedly shifted strategy and focus. People at all organizational levels have been called on to take new initiatives and add responsibilities. Moreover, it now seems as if larger historical, technological, and economic forces are at work, and that the very concepts of job and organization as we have known them are on their way to the historical dustbin. In short, the old game of business is gone, and a new game has taken its place.