Bridging Organization Design and Performance: Five Ways to Activate a Global Operation Model

Chapter 8Matrix-Ready Leaders

In 1990 C.K. Prahalad wrote an article titled “Globalization: The Intellectual and Managerial Challenges.” In this paper he described the future global environment for business leaders.

A world where variety, complex interaction patterns among various subunits, host governments, and customers, pressures for change and stability, and the need to reassert individual identity in a complex web of organizational relationships are the norm. This world is beset with ambiguity and stress. Facts, emotions, anxieties, power and dependence, competition and collaboration, individual and team efforts are all present. (Prahalad ...