Are you a forward-thinking CEO stuck in an outdated organizational structure?
This is an easy trap to fall into. I know because I was once the CEO of a hyper-growth company that suddenly seemed to hit a wall. I didn’t know it then, but we had outgrown our organizational structure.
Structure isn’t the people, it’s how the business is designed. And when the strategy or business stage changes, the structure must change! If not, you’ll end up in a quagmire caught between the new disruptive company you want to lead and the inertia of the status quo.
The solution is to first take the current team and people out of the equation (at first) and look at the business objectively to design a new and scalable structure for the chosen strategy. Once the structure is designed, then you can energize it with the current team and people and bring things to life in new and better ways.
In a sentence, how it’s designed is how it performs.
If you’d like to dive deeper into this very important concept of designing your organizational structure to scale, I’ve compiled videos and tools from my book Designed to Scale: How to Structure Your Company for Exponential Growth. You can peruse them at your convenience. Here’s the link: The Smart Way to Change Your Structure Videos.