Traditional linear organizations are derived from military context with top-down hierarchical command-and-control structures, good for scarcity and short-term aggressive goals in stable markets, push innovation from inside outward, are risk-intolerant and slow, with KPIs and performance reviews designed to mistrust employees, reflecting organizational design from the industrial revolution to today.

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Salim Ismail

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our organizations globally government departments corporations etc are typically derived from a military context top down hierarchical command and control

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Building a business for the Future?OpenExO
Created: 8/13/2026, 10:25:00 AM

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