My guess is that the most bruising skirmishes in the new millennium won't be fought along the battle lines that separate one competitor, ecosystem or economic bloc from Rather, they will be along the lines that separate those who seek defend the prerogatives, power and prestige of their bureaucratic caste from those who hope to build less structured, less tightly managed organizations that elicit and merit the very best that human beings have to give. Not surprisingly, most managers believe you can't manage without managers. This is the mother of all management orthodoxies. "To a large extent, managers play the role of parents, school principles, crossing guards and hall monitors. They employ control from without because employees have been deprived of the ability to exercise control from within. Adolescents outgrow most of employees often aren't given that chance. The result: these constraining influences disaffection. Adults enjoy being treated like 1s-year olds even less than 1s-year olds. "New problems demand new principles. Put bluntly, there's simply no way to build innovation and employee organizational capabilities resilience, tomorrow's essential engagement atop the scaffolding of 20th century management principles Have you ever asked yourself, what a the deepest principles upon which my management beliefs are based? Probably not. Few executives, in my experience, have principles that underlie their views on how to given much thought to the foundational organize and manage. In that sense, they a as unaware of their managerial DNA as they are of their biological DNA. One can fairly describe the development of modern management as an unending quest Increasingly to regularize the irregular, starting with errant and disorderly employees. though, we live in irregular world, where irregular people take advantage of irregular events and use irregular means to produce irregular products that yield irregular profits. "Look around you, what things have demonstrated their adaptability across decades centuries and eons? What sets the benchmark for adaptability? From my vantage point, life, markets, democracies, faith and cities all seem surprisingly adaptable. Each of these biological and human systems has proven itself to be far more resilient than any tion. They must become the role models for st century companies.