Organizational Leadership - Introduction

There is a notion that the United States work environment will morph into a two tier system. The first tier is the Executive Leadership. This group determines the direction of the corporation or business unit and the strategy to get there. The second tier is the people who provide the services to implement the strategy. That doesn’t sound too far away from what happens now, except the second tier will mainly be engaged and compensated by a type of contract work. The strategy will call for certain work components that are arranged by a timeline.  Contractors will come and go based on the components.  Basically, it is outsourcing everything except Executive Leadership.

But the downside is growth. As the Executive Leadership grow the company more and more components are working. Some are cohesive and others have no relationship whatsoever. It is the latter that creates a new form of inefficiency. As the corporation gets bigger the relationship of the business units gets further away from each other. The contract workers might be providing the same service, but working on different tracks of the strategy and for different Executive Leadership. So now you look over the landscape of the company and nothing fits together. Everything is its own silo.

So what currently happens is a form of middle managements. But unfortunately that doesn’t really correct the problem. It just adds two layers of convolution for every layer of complexity it takes out. Finding a solution that doesn’t involve inserting a middle management is ideal.

Please read Organizational Leadership - Establishing Rules and Organizational Leadership - Empowering Your Experts to continue the theme.

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