Category: Power

Succession Is a Test You Can’t Study For Leadership transitions reveal the true health of an organisation’s power structure more than any other event — and most founders avoid planning for it until it is too late to do well. Every organisation believes its power structure is sound until the moment that structure is asked to...

The Org Chart Is a Cover Story The chart shows who has authority. It rarely shows who has influence. Most strategic mistakes are made by people reading the wrong one. Every organisation produces two structures simultaneously. The first is the one on the chart: boxes, lines, titles, a clean hierarchy that can be printed and handed...