The contribution of Agile to enhanced management practices for dealing with complexity is a shift towards valuing transparency, obliquity, informality, expertise and getting real-world results for customers through iterative approaches, as compared to the traditional management approaches of command, control, hierarchy, rules, formal plans, reports, predictability, short-term efficiency and a preoccupation with saving or making money.

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There is no central control or imposed hierarchy.

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How is it that a swarm of people who lack any sort of hierarchy or control structure can be so successful in collectively maneuvering a Pong paddle to hit the ball?

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Information, communications, and networking technologies have all facilitated substantial advances in rational control mechanisms such as monitoring and command-and-control, while creating a hierarchy of expertise that requires deference to the more technologically sophisticated.

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By retaining control, the state will be able to prevent a hierarchy of rich and poor institutions emerging.

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