Seth Godin posted a clarification today on Small is the New Big concept.
"1. In Small Is the New Big, I'm not saying that only small companies will thrive moving forward. Instead, I'm saying that any organization that acts small has an advantage over those that insist on acting big, regardless of size."
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that big, matrix like organizations, are failing because they don't act small. Example, one organization I know of has an internal target of increasing bonuses by off-shoring business - the more the better (bigger is better and a fat paycheck comes with large off-shoring of labor).
I'm not against off-shoring labor - I'm not against sharing the wealth with the world - what I'm against is the way corporations are acting "large" instead of "small". They think they have it all figured out..... if we do "X" today ...we get a better investor price ....they think "big" and the fail, over and over and over.
What Seth Godin is saying ........ think small. Don't think that any one thing is the answer to all your problems - make your corporation groups "smaller" and solve "small problems" that will end up yielding "big dividends". But that is not the way it is...and that's why so many corporations are failing..the very people they sought to serve...their investors ...and they're also screwing up their employees and contractors.
In the end, no one wins.
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