If you're in such a position of power and your ego is such that this is not possible, then its essential to have a small cadre of very bright, committed people who are questioning, exploring and understanding these emerging concepts.

It is far too late and things are far too bad for pessimism.

Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.

Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia.

To put it another way, I believe that purpose and principle, clearly understood and articulated, and commonly shared, are the genetic code of any healthy organization. To the degree that you hold purpose and principles in common among you, you can dispense with command and control. People will know how to behave in accordance with them, and they'll do it in thousands of unimaginable, creative ways. The organization will become a vital, living set of beliefs.

Heaven is purpose, principle, and people. Purgatory is paper and procedure. Hell is rules and regulations.

Far better than a precise plan is a clear sense of direction and compelling beliefs. And that lies within you. The question is, how do you evoke it?