Caso Gore
W. L. Gore and Associates
CONTENTS
1. What are the distinctive features of W.L Gore’s organization and management? On which principles is it based?
2. What are the advantages and disadvantages of W.L. Gore’s approach to organization and management of the company?
3. To what extent is the W.L. Gore approach to organization and management transferrable to other companies? And, if it is, to what types of company?
4. Would you like to work for a company with this managerial organization? If you were the CEO, would you implement such a system?
Conclusion
Bibliography
1. What are the distinctive features of W.L Gore’s organization and management? On which principles is it based?
The absence of job titles and the lack of the normal symbols of hierarchy are not the only things that are different about Gore. They don’t use this kind of management model. Gore's model is a kind of creation of true democracy of innovation. Bill Gore was bent on creating an entirely new kind of company, one that inspired every person in it, one that put as much energy into finding the next big thing as milking the last big thing, one that was robustly profitable and uniquely human.
Bill Gore conceived Gore as a kind of experiment in management innovation, one that is still ongoing. The questions that drove him at founding are crucial questions managers everywhere must grapple with today: Was it possible to build a company with no hierarchy, where everyone was free to talk with everyone else? How about a company where there were no bosses, no supervisors, no managers and no vice presidents? Could W. L. Gore preserve a sense of family and collegiality even as it scaled? Could you create a company with no “core” business, one that was as focused on creating the future as on preserving the past? The answer to each of these questions was an emphatic "Yes!" Gore have done it, they became a
CONTENTS
1. What are the distinctive features of W.L Gore’s organization and management? On which principles is it based?
2. What are the advantages and disadvantages of W.L. Gore’s approach to organization and management of the company?
3. To what extent is the W.L. Gore approach to organization and management transferrable to other companies? And, if it is, to what types of company?
4. Would you like to work for a company with this managerial organization? If you were the CEO, would you implement such a system?
Conclusion
Bibliography
1. What are the distinctive features of W.L Gore’s organization and management? On which principles is it based?
The absence of job titles and the lack of the normal symbols of hierarchy are not the only things that are different about Gore. They don’t use this kind of management model. Gore's model is a kind of creation of true democracy of innovation. Bill Gore was bent on creating an entirely new kind of company, one that inspired every person in it, one that put as much energy into finding the next big thing as milking the last big thing, one that was robustly profitable and uniquely human.
Bill Gore conceived Gore as a kind of experiment in management innovation, one that is still ongoing. The questions that drove him at founding are crucial questions managers everywhere must grapple with today: Was it possible to build a company with no hierarchy, where everyone was free to talk with everyone else? How about a company where there were no bosses, no supervisors, no managers and no vice presidents? Could W. L. Gore preserve a sense of family and collegiality even as it scaled? Could you create a company with no “core” business, one that was as focused on creating the future as on preserving the past? The answer to each of these questions was an emphatic "Yes!" Gore have done it, they became a