The weakness of Gen Y managers has bothered me, and I remained bothered until I had made up my mind about the future of management.

I think management is going to exist pretty much unchanged except for three features.

• We will work globally with people all over the world


• We will work through the internet and need internet-type IT skills


• Management will no longer be hierarchical

Managers of tomorrow will be puppet masters who specialize in the

• Design of systems


• Management of communities


• Identification of collective opportunities

Collective will be their thing.

Managers won’t be promoted up the ranks simply because there will be fewer ranks. Specialists will be happy to stay in their own specialities because there will be no advantage to promotion.  Managers may have no technical skills but they will be adept at getting people to work together.  They will be no more important than any one else though.  They’ll ask for support rathe