
Companies need to transform how managers manage.
Agile is a recent example of work innovations emphasizing autonomous, self-managed teams. Other approaches that companies have been experimenting with in recent years go by a bewildering variety of names: lean, holacracy, the polycratic organization, and the exponential organization, to list a few. But in this organizational revolution-in-the-making, a critical piece is missing. Companies lack a compelling model for the role of management. The challenge of the organizational