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Command and control is a walking corpse that hasn't realized it's dead yet!

For many years, Robin Cook has said that command-and-control is a walking corpse that hasn't realized it's dead yet!

C-&-C is rooted in the Industrial Revolution perspective that organizations are machines. Nothing could be further from the truth. Organizations are organic, dynamic entities & must be addressed as such.

In addition, one of the foundation premises of C-&-C is the assumption that it's possible to control the flow of information. Technology has rendered this impossible, thus making C-&-C impossible.

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