The importance of organization structure Businesses operate to serve markets, deliver profits and create value for shareholders. To accomplish these objectives, the business’s organization structure must support the delivery of the strategy. All parts must be in...
The three most important things you can do for your team If you’re a manager in an organization of any size, it’s almost certain that you interact with, manage, or are on a team of some nature. Teams are a fundamental, foundational element of how work is distributed...
Are you setting your teams up for success? Teams are the primary vehicle for getting things done in business today. We use various types of teams, from natural or collateral teams reporting to a common manager to agile self-organizing teams that come together for...
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...
Cross-boundary Work In this week’s blog, we will delve into what we believe to be one of the most common sources of tension and organizational dysfunction (it shows up in almost all of our projects)—the problems that arise as people try to work effectively across...
