Operation Phoenix 15: A study of living and working in a technological society

WHAT IS MEANT BY A MODERN MANAGEMENT STYLE? HOW SOME OF THE IDEAS WENT SOUR. We are now in a position to develop a better understanding of how change comes about in organisations and society — a study that has been monstrously neglected. Not all change works in the same way: change sequences can fall into several patterns. In some cases people simply start doing new things or doing old things in a new way, sometimes by accident, often because old restraints vanish; once the innvoators do it and get away with it or demonstrate the advantages others follow — very often they have no choice but to follow, if they are to stay in the race.