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adhocracy

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9 lettersPronunciation /ədˈhɒkɹəsi/Part of speech nounSorted aaccdhoryStarts with AEnds with Y0 clues
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Definitions

  1. an organization with little or no structure

Word origin

From ad hoc + -cracy, by analogy with bureaucracy; coined by American organizational consultant Warren Bennis (1925–2014) and American sociologist Philip Slater (1927–2013) in The Temporary Society (1964), and popularized by American futurist Alvin Toffler (1928–2016) in his book Future Shock (1970).

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  • This is a picture of the coming Ad-hocracy, the fast-moving, information-rich, kinetic organization of the future, filled with transient cells and extremely mobile individuals […]
  • Perhaps, [Joel] Garreau implied, the Global Business Network would work like Esther Dyson's Internet and would transform its client organizations into inventive, problem-solving ad-hocracies.

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