Moving away from hierarchy doesn’t have to entail a full organizational redesign, though there are many benefits to flatter organizations. It can also be a shift in the quality of our relationships, a move towards collaboration, partnership, and valuing expert power before or as much as positional power. It requires clueing into where power overContinue reading “Hierarchy: Feelings About Change (3 of 3)”
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Hierarchy: Let Form Follow Function (2 of 3)
If we want more diverse and creative organizations that can adapt to this quickly changing world, and if we want more sustainable jobs and happier teams, we have to open up to what is possible. We have to reorient around what we’re trying to achieve and then design our resources, practices, and decision-making and communicationContinue reading “Hierarchy: Let Form Follow Function (2 of 3)”
Hierarchy: Does it Serve the Work? (1 of 3)
Decentralization has been a hot topic of organizational development for decades, but hierarchy still has a stronghold on management and organizations. With millennials becoming the largest (and most racially diverse) generation in the U.S. workforce, and with a rise in diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, it seems that organizations are finally thinking critically about hierarchy. Continue reading “Hierarchy: Does it Serve the Work? (1 of 3)”
Cathie Pelchat 