Driving Digital: Microsoft and Its Customers Speak About Thriving in the E-Business Era

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Title Driving Digital: Microsoft and Its Customers Speak About Thriving in the E-Business Era
Publication Type Book
Pub Year 2001
Authors McDowell, R. L., & Simon W. L.
Publisher HarperBusiness
Keywords openness
Notes openness"If you think about the traditional corporate structure, what determines who's going to be a part of the debate? Simple: the people who are allowed in the meeting room." (p. 78)

"Two issues: Can your senior executive group adjust to a culture in which folks at the most junior levels of the organization have access to all but the most highly sensitive information about the company? And can they adjust to a culture in which they will receive e-mails from those same junior level folks? Will they be open and responsive to those e-mails? Are the managers at levels between the junior sender and senior executive who receives the e-mail going to revolt at not being consulted before the message gets sent, probably not even cc'ed?" (p. 84)