The structure you choose for your business goes a long way toward your success or failure, so choosing wisely is essential. Some businesses prefer a tall organizational structure in which there are ...

Zak Dabbas, an Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) member from Chicago, is the CEO of Punchkick Interactive, a mobile development agency specializing in UX/UI, user testing, and analytics. We asked him ...

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 ...

Our shift from bureaucratic to distributed leadership took nearly a century. According to Deborah Ancona, a professor of management and organizational studies at MIT, companies in America circa 1920s ...

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 ...

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An organization’s need to generate and sustain unrivaled innovation is the driving force behind why management structure is the hottest business topic right now. And for a good reason. When companies ...

Startups often start with a flat organizational structure. In many cases, there is no hierarchy. As equal partners, financial experts or operations managers don’t answer to an organization-wide ...

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Responsibilities That Come With the Flat Organizational Model. A flat organization has fewer managerial layers than a hierarchical company. The flat company may have as few as one or two levels of ...

An organizational structure defines the scope of acceptable behavior within an organization, its lines of authority and accountability, and to some extent the organization’s relationship with its ...