Collaboration vs Control

Extracted 27MAR2012 from http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/03/managers_need_to_up_their_game.html

Using social media to accomplish a meaningful purpose involves more than providing new technology and praying for success. Successful mass collaboration places new requirements on an organization, particularly its managers...

Because social media and mass collaboration fundamentally challenge the relationship between responsibility, resources, and management. Normally, managers accept responsibility provided it comes with control of the resources required to deliver on that responsibility. The connection between responsibility and resources sits at the heart of management authority, control, accountability, and organizational design...

Unfortunately, this control is the antithesis of collaboration. Relinquishing control to create space for collaboration challenges managers who rely on their authority, experience, and positional power to achieve results...