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Most companies are run from the top down, which is the classic organization followed in the old business model. The concept is very simple and easy to grasp: the people who hold the highest positions in a firm are obviously really smart and educated and thus more capable of charting a course and guiding the company than the lowly, uneducated masses who do the actual labor. As you might imagine by now, this perspective has several flaws.
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Duncan, C. (2012). Strategy. In: Unite the Tribes. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-5111-8_11
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