In the end, you're still directing the process, but you're allowing for the collaboration and debate to take place, which in a command-and-control environment doesn't happen.
It's a whole new way of working if you're used to a command-and-control environment where you give orders and everyone comes to attention".
It turns out that when you are that clear around people and values, it empowers people and creates an entrepreneurial spirit that gives people space and rope, rather than being in a command-and-control environment.
A command-and-control environment is where you have a meeting and you say, "This is what I think; what do you think?" The good news about that was there was no question about where we were going, and what we were going to do.
"But people who see themselves as knowledge workers are not attracted by schools organised like an assembly line, with teachers working as interchangeable widgets in a bureaucratic command-and-control environment," says Mr Schleicher.
A report by a major government contractor discussed the conundrum: how to deal with those who are tech savvy, open-minded, multitasking, and perhaps unprepared for command and control environments?
This interview with Joseph J. Plumeri, chairman and chief executive of Willis Group Holdings, the insurance brokerage, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant. A. I was once a command-and-control guy, but the environment's different today.
In remarks to a Senate committee considering her for director of the Environmental Protection Agency, Governor Whitman also said all environmental regulations should be made subject to strict cost-benefit tests, and she vowed to "move beyond the command-and-control model" of protecting the environment.
Unlike command-and-control regulations, which may directly limit discharges into the environment, mandated environmental assessments protect the environment indirectly by increasing the quantity and quality of publicly available information on the environmental consequences of contemplated actions.
