In this column, I have argued that the conventional practice and theory of change management could itself benefit from some overhaul. In this post, I will zoom out, summarizing nine key propositions ...

The organizational structure of a business affects critical elements such as decision making, employee behavior, performance and rewards, individual accountability and managed information. It's ...

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 ...

How often have you heard somebody — a new CEO, a journalist, a management consultant, a leadership guru, a fellow employee — talk about the urgent need to change the culture? They want to make it ...

Henry Mintzberg is a Canadian management theorist who focused on what managers actually do at work. He described 10 everyday roles that managers play, grouped into three types: working with people ...

As a business owner, you have multiple structural choices for your company. These choices are made easier by the number of organizational design principle examples from successful companies that you ...

The Boundaryless Organization: Breaking the Chains of Organizational Structure by Ron Ashkenas, Dave Ulrich, Todd Jick and Steve Kerr (364 pages, Jossey-Bass, 1995) Our global food system is ...