Tag: organization design challenges

A Primer on Spans and Layers

August 17, 2023

Organizations evolve over time. Leaders regularly make organization design decisions tailored to a specific person or a unique business need at that particular moment. Perhaps they are giving a high performing resource an opportunity to grow and learn a new part of the business, so they move another function under their purview.  Perhaps a manager … More A Primer on Spans and Layers

The Second Challenge: Over-Focus On the Individual

February 15, 2023

Over the past three weeks I have shared a series of posts about my new book, Strategies for Organization Design: Using the Peopletecture Model to Improve Collaboration and Performance.  In the book I describe the three enduring challenges that plague organization design: 1.   Design decisions are not linked to human behavior. 2.   Design solutions are … More The Second Challenge: Over-Focus On the Individual