Management Resource Planning Management Resource Planning (MRP) is one of the most important general management functions of the management team—managing the talent pool to ensure the sustainability of the organization in the long run. One of the guiding principles...
The manager once removed role has a huge impact on the effectiveness of your business Earlier in our organization design series CORE provided an overview of the 3 tier management system made up of employee, manager and Manager once Removed(MoR) roles (The...
Building effective general management teams I once worked for a company whose unofficial nickname was the “drive-by shooting company” referencing the frequent turnover of its senior executives, where almost monthly another VP or two found themselves out on the street....
Lateral Work A while back as part of our ongoing series “Organizations that Work” we wrote about what we call “Cross-Boundary Work”—which is work that requires two or more employees, who report to different managers, to collaborate to produce an output neither of them...
Matching task assignment to role accountabilities Over the last few weeks, we have discussed how complexity is a key factor in organization design and the importance of aligning accountability and authority into roles. The last piece of this puzzle is ensuring that...
