What does the Future of Management look like to you?

I have just been rereading a post by Gary Hamel on his blog Management 2.0 called "What does the Future of Management look like to you?". He asked a question a while ago:

Looking twenty years out into the future, what one characteristic—principle, practice, or structural feature—of the “modern” industrial organization will appear to be the most antiquated or anachronistic?

It is interesting to see some of the responses he has received to that question. Whilst the responses are made with the frame of Management, the views and observations equally apply to organisations holistically and reflect the rise in importance of Social Capital and the demise of "command and control" structures that is even occurring today.

I previously have covered the move to a networked world and we are seeing more organisations start to consider what this means for them. More importantly it is also revealing that there is no one right answer / solution to the impact this will have. This says to me that we need to embrace the complex world in which we live, acknowledge that we don't know the answers and look to understand the present in order to influence our future direction. We need to make sense of our environment today if we are to be successful tomorrow.

Will this make sense and resonate with a lot of people today? Probably not, but I am willing to wager that as change remains the only constant and the goal posts shift even faster, the organisations that thrive will have made this shift in mindset.