Andrew Chakhoyan

“The key to management is to get rid of the managers,” advised Ricardo Semler, whose TED Talk went viral, introducing terms such as “industrial democracy” and “corporate re-engineering”. It’s important to point out that Mr. Semler isn’t an academic or an expert in management theory, he is the CEO of a successful industrial company. His views are unlikely to represent mainstream thinking on organizational design. But perhaps it is time we redefine the term “manager”, and question whether the idea of “management” as it was inherited from the industrial era, has outlived its usefulness.

A reflection on global megatrends and what it means for each one of us, for the companies where we work, and the countries where we live.

Have you ever wondered how much public trust in the Tech Sector is worth? Now we know. It is at least half a trillion dollars — the amount of losses spanning the two weeks following the first revelations in the Cambridge Analytica scandal. With so much value at stake, this is a moment of reckoning for the giants of the Silicon Valley. It is also our chance to reimagine how the digital commons are organized and administered.