The Haier Model: Reinventing a Multinational Giant in the Network Era

As we make the jump to the Fourth Industrial Revolution driven by the technology, we have to change how we work together. Creativity and innovation needed are more likely to bubble up than to bubble down. Diverse customer needs and diverse technology components require equally diverse teams, at every level of your organization, who can collaborate,

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Actually, one could argue that every organization’s real structure looks like this: an intricate web of fluid relationships and commitments that people engage in to get their work done. Unfortunately, most organizations force a second structure, the one with boxes piled up in pyramid shape, on top of the first. No wonder it sits there so uneasily—i

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