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me confidence. If I had been able to read German in those days I
might never have commenced my experiments!”
One of the most startling consequences of the telephone
was its introduction of a “seamless web” of interlaced patterns
in management and decision-making. It is not feasible to
exercise delegated authority by telephone. The pyramidal
structure of job-division and description and delegated powers
cannot withstand the speed of the phone to by-pass all
hierarchical arrangements, and to involve people in depth. In
the same way, mobile panzer divisions equipped with radio
telephones upset the traditional army structure. And we have
seen how the news reporter linking the printed page to the
telephone and the telegraph created a unified corporate image
out of the fragmented government departments.