Finished is the era of evil managers taking credit for the innovations below them. More and more of my peers are moving elsewhere when managers steal information for their executive 'strategies.' True strategy rests in true knowledge. If a manager cannot come up with a true strategy, thereby failing to have true knowledge, they best move to another role. When good people leave, their companies are adversely affected by the reduction in knowledge capital.

I consistently write on the structureless organization, but even this is not true. Fewer layers is definitely better, however, you still need executive roles. Rather than simply arguing that fewer is better, I would say the more important issue is that management will begin to shift into new behaviors.
Perhaps, less command-and-control and more facilitation will take place. Motivation is always important, as well as helping employees to get along. Managers will make less and less decisions in the future, else the Gen Yers will leave, and leave quickly.

Spot on about the layers obfuscating merit (and claiming it for themselves)
The social enterprise will need facilitators, not old-fashioned “leaders”

You'll need a flat landscape for this though, in my opinion. If you're all standing out in the field it's a lot easier to spot “who's tallest” than when you're all up on the slopes of a mountain
And as organisations are getting bigger and markets act faster, it just doesn't scale at all anymore (has it ever). So maybe we'll have one management layer in the feature? (wouldn't that be awesome)

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