Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

The culture required to drive a strategy of innovation is different from the culture required to develop efficiency or operational excellence. The challenge leaders face is that there is no one perfect culture. Culture needs to vary depending on your business strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

So much so that we see them as “the way things work” and forget that bureaucracies were once innovations too. So matrices, in a sense, led to the worst of both worlds, a cumbersome organizational structure and the inability to adapt to fast changing contexts. The truth is that networks are informal structures.

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Ron Edmondson

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Leaders today must continually strive to find the balance between formal and informal structures. Team members need to help shape the course of action. It is critical to an organization’s success. Nate and I have finished our fall semester at the Ron Edmondson Leadership Podcast. New episodes will begin in early 2021.

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Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

I have learned this: Leaders today must continually strive to find the balance between formal and informal structures. With my 35 plus years of leadership experience, I realize I’m from an “old school”, but I’m still learning – and re-learning.

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