The Slow Birth of Entreprenocracy  Tux, the Linux penguin  Image
via Wikipedia  In a recent Wall Street Journal article on The
End of Management, Alan Murray claims corporate bureaucracy is
becoming obsolete and that managers should act like venture
capitalists. Maybe so. But management trends do not necessarily
mean that the old mores disappear. The two may integrate. Or,
the new trend might be just ephemeral. Very often, things
regress towards the mean. Is he running the risk of calling a
live phenomenon obsolete? Is he slightly overconfident in the
venture capitalist attitude? Yes to both. Here is why.  In the
case of management as such, or corporate bureaucracy in
particular, lots of things have happened since the phenomena
first appeared. Well, we might first want to discuss when it
actually did appear. Is Murray talking about the practice of
management, which is as old as humans have formed groups and
civilizations? Or, is he talking about the post-war formulation
of management science and case studies