Shifting from Orchestras to Jazz Bands (PART TWO)

How can we achieve the improvisation needed in “Jazz Bands”? Learning. We need more courses that focus on this area in related university degrees and other teaching centers. Part of these courses could be afforded by the government (with investment returns that go beyond the imaginable) and the rest by companies wishing to have flexible and proactive managers.

The horizontal organizational structure mentioned in the previous post could be also promoted by the government. For example, it can give tax benefits to companies that present less hierarchical structures. Of course, the “ideal structure” (if there is something like this) would vary from one industry to another (it is reasonable for a manufacturing company to have a more hierarchical structure than a service company). Therefore, the state can propose “ideal structures” for each industry and give tax benefits to companies that are close to these ideals analyzing different parameters such as the salary distribution, for example.

One last comment, we need to abandon the old conceptions of planning. In a world where some scientists say that in less than a century half of the world would be inhabitable due to climate changes and others say that a couple of decades from now, artificial intelligence will surpass human’s; it is impossible (if not stupid) to make predictions with horizons ten years from now and make strategic decisions based on these. Instead, we need to create organizations that function as autonomous structures that can adapt to drastic changes with flexible plans and variable time horizons.