Hierarchical leadership - a discontinued model?

Reto Baumgartner is the owner and member of the management board of MySign AG and is primarily involved in digital branding.Companies have been managed hierarchically since industrialization. Hierarchical organizations were established at a time when people were still uneducated, cheap and interchangeable workers. Today, employees are highly trained and earn good salaries. Nevertheless, most companies are still managed using yesterday's logic. The boss decides and prioritizes. Things that are considered unimportant from the boss's point of view are left undone. Regardless of how efficient and structured an organization is, the line manager is always the bottleneck in a hierarchical structure. In an increasingly complex, volatile and fast-moving market, this limits the agility of a company enormously, which is why it is no coincidence that small companies are the most innovative today and corporations have to make great efforts to ensure that they do not miss out on developments. In a complex system, hierarchical decision-making structures are too slow and inadequate. In order to seize opportunities immediately and react to changes, a structure is needed that allows more autonomy on the front line. Nature shows us how: Every human cell functions with a high degree of autonomy. If the brain had to focus all its energy on ensuring that every cell fulfilled its function, the body would be far less efficient and the brain would have no capacity to deal with external influences.why shouldn't something that works well in nature also work in an organization? Forms of distributed responsibility and self-organization are much more agile and employees who can work autonomously and on their own responsibility are more motivated and committed. It's time for a rethink.