That was the question asked on ‘The Agenda with Steve Paikin’ the other day.

Of course it’s the wrong question.

One real question is “How do you build an organisation that takes individual competences and creates an organisational capability”.   In other words, how do you co-ordinate the activities of different people into a consistent,  repeatable business activity?

Another is “How do we create organisations that are as capable of as the people inside them?”.  In other words, how do you make sure that individual capabilities are not stifled/wasted in the process?

If you want your business to achieve its purpose effectively and efficiently, you have to find a way of managing that addresses both of these questions.

Managers are a solution, but they aren’t the only one.  And they may not be the best.