New word for the day
by Paul Miller
I've just learned a new word - heterarchies. Apparently, "Heterarchies are new forms of organization featuring collaborative structures, distributed authority, and asset ambiguity. This organizational innovation is a creative response to the ever-accelerating pace of technological change and the redefinition of markets and polities at regional and global scales. Heterarchies are characterized by the organization of diversity: an active rivalry of coexisting principles of evaluation as a given organizational building block coexists in cross-cutting networks involving more than one regime of worth."
You can read the introduction that this is from here.
crabtree crabtree
sounds like a post-hoc rationalisation for a total shambles to me. Distributed authority = no one in charge. Asset Ambiguity = no one knows where the money comes from. Acute rivalry of principles = no one knows what is going on.
it will go far.