96. The Southern Ball: Can You Organize to Help Not Hinder?
Concept
A big part of the responsibility of executive leaders is organizational architecture. Existing companies have developed structures and systems, hundreds of systems, over the years that may or may not be helping current employees to do their jobs. Whether executives like it or not, they are organizational architects, yet many of them inadvertently create organizations that hinder rather than help.
Bureaucracy has its place. It puts decision making in systems rather than individuals. It protects large organizations from impulsive leaders. It gives employees and customers a sense of stability. But bureaucracies can also stifle creativity, timely responsiveness to market changes, ...
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