For decades, management theorists have been talking about how organizations need to continually learn by eschewing the traditional command and control approach in favor of empowering their employees.

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Because of these human conditions, the command and control approach which rarely listens to employees, or if listening rarely responds to their satisfaction, treats employees with great disrespect and leads them to treat their work with the same level of disrespect.

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And it explains the world's top-down, command-and-control approach to environmental policymaking.

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That is why the next wave of environmental policymaking will need to employ commonsense tools such as cost-benefit analysis, and make greater use of flexible, market-based instruments such as emissions-trading, rather than the tired command-and-control approach favoured by most greens.

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As businesses struggle to survive during times of economic contraction, they are often tempted to rein in control and strip away the freedoms afforded by the mission command approach.

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But by talking prematurely about tax cuts, Mr Duncan Smith is only giving ammunition to Tony Blair and confusing what should be his party's most important message: that the Conservatives' newfound decentralist approach is superior to the philosophically flawed command-and-control methods of the government.

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