There has been a lot of excitement about Zappos new hierarchy free, self-organising, boss-less organisation. The holocracy, as it's known, is all very zeitgeisty. My Twitter timeline is full of articles about smashing corporate hierarchies and getting rid of executives. Last year, Gary Hamel, described in Fortune magazine as 'the world’s leading expert on business strategy', told the CIPD conference that "
I'm one of the Zeitgeisty nonsense guys: http://blinkingti.me/2014/01/01/we-cant-afford-this-government-we-must-afford-holacracy/ - but Rick provides an excellent corrective to the latter's excesses. (Even mine!!!)