Every organization, no matter its size, has an abundance of moving pieces. Ensuring that all those pieces move in perfect synchrony starts by devising an organizational structure that represents the ...

As a trellis supports a vine, organizational structure supports the growth of a company. The right structure provides direction and order to a company's efforts, allowing goals to come to fruition.

A common question that gets brought up in our work with CEO peer groups is how organizations should be structured in order to achieve the best results. The issue CEOs struggle with is how to put ...

Picture the most successful companies in the world; they have one thing in common — an effective organizational structure. But what exactly does that entail and how can it make or break a business? If ...

Some people say flat structures cause chaos in organizations. And while that can certainly be true, my experience has been different. After years of working for horizontal and vertical hierarchies, I ...

Leaders can sense when their organization is not working well or if the environment they operate in has changed, rendering the operating strategy and structure obsolete. The current Covid-19 pandemic ...

The interconnected world means organizations rely less and less on traditional pyramid structures, but more on collaboration. This ideal represents the nature of leadership in a flat organization. An ...

When companies plan an organizational structure, one important set of decisions addresses how to group jobs together to best accomplish work. The departmentalization process results in groupings of ...