Every organization, no matter its size, has an abundance of moving pieces. Ensuring that all those pieces move in perfect synchrony starts by devising an organizational structure that represents the ...

Jeff Tompkins is a writer and teacher of English as a Second Language living in New York City. He was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1967 and was educated at Brown University and University College ...

Coming up with a great business idea often isn't the biggest challenge entrepreneurs face in being successful. If you've created a product or service the public wants, you'll still need to develop and ...

Henry Mintzberg is a Canadian management theorist who focused on what managers actually do at work. He described 10 everyday roles that managers play, grouped into three types: working with people ...

For too long, project managers have been viewed as taskmasters—focused on schedules and budgets but rarely influencing the ...

The way in which an organization is structured has a great impact on the style of management needed to optimize the organization. A misfit between management styles and the organizational structure ...

Organizational transformations are always more difficult, take longer and require more resources than we think. Especially in today’s VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) global business ...

People come together and join forces for a reason. To achieve the purpose effectively and efficiently, they create an organization. The sum total of those individuals' shared beliefs, norms, attitudes ...

“Seventy percent of corporate transformation efforts are doomed to fail.” International change leader and Harvard Business School professor Dr. John Kotter made this dire assertion more than 25 years ...

Note: This article is the cover story in the Feb/March issue of Security Technology Executive magazine. As of the preparation of this article, numerous ongoing crises have had a global impact. There ...

Mariah is a Berlin-based writer with six years of experience in writing, localizing and SEO-optimizing short- and long-form content across multiple niches, including higher education, digital ...