<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2014.210" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV>Ernesto Gantman wrote:<BR><BR>><BR>> The book's compelling conclusion is that instead of a tendency towards<BR>> increasing theoretical refinement, what is more evident is a trend towards<BR>> fictionalization, which ends in the contemporary paradigm of flatter, more<BR>> participative and democratic organizational forms.<BR><BR>Really? Boy I haven't seen this anywhere I've worked in the last twenty<BR>years...except for very, very small companies.<BR><BR>Joanna</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>I agree, Joanna. There are very, very few authentically democratic<BR>organizations. However, it seems that the pundits of management thought do<BR>not see it this way. The paragraph you quote from the publisher's<BR>description of my book refers precisely to the ideology of these management<BR>gurus.<BR>Ernesto<BR><BR></FONT></DIV> <DIV><BR> </DIV></BODY></HTML>