Hands up, who wants to go back in time to a society where a monarch made every important decision, social mobility was all but impossible, and people weren’t trusted to make decisions for themselves, their community, or their country? Any takers?
Perhaps not when you put it like that, but in reality, this is how many of today’s businesses are run.
In this four-part blog series, managing consultant, Scott Docherty, who also handily has a history master’s degree, journeys back through time to look at the parallels between modern business hierarchies and historical societal structures. Scott wonders if it might be time for change.