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 ...

Organizational structures have been a hot topic of debate in the business world recently, due in no small part to the events of the last few years. Many companies simply lacked the agility to respond ...

Following traditional ways of doing things has its benefits, but sometimes, breaking from convention is the only way to grow. For many of today's organizations and their employees, the rigidity of ...

Organizational change can be seen as a threat, but can also create opportunity. How people initially react to changes depends on their placement within their work groups' status hierarchy, according ...

Cooperatives are a common form of shared ownership among agricultural and industrial enterprises around the globe. NGOs especially favor cooperatives for implementation in the developing world, ...

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 ...

In my 20s, I wanted to overthrow hierarchies at work. When I would see bad leadership, I blamed the hierarchy—structures where certain people have more power or influence than others, forcing us into ...

At some point in their career, everyone has probably seen one of those operational hierarchy charts that define who reports to whom at an organization. Sometimes just called an org chart, it's a ...