Informal Structure Management Operations 
Strategy Driven
OCTOBER 31, 2017
The number of attacks and breaches continues to increase exponentially, despite the increasing awareness of better information security. Over 90% of business operations are now stored digitally, so this increase is not surprising. What’s surprising is how so many businesses still take information security lightly.
Skip Prichard
JUNE 22, 2020
It’s HR’s Job: While HR certainly plays a significant role in the development and management of policies that can help or hurt culture, it’s the responsibility of everyone inside the organization to create and maintain a thriving culture. Middle managers are instrumental in creating a deep personal commitment to change.
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Terry Starbucker
NOVEMBER 1, 2009
This sets up a wall between management and the rank-and-file that is very, very hard to knock down. Engagement vs. Get out in the field – engage with your teammates, roll up your sleeves, talk to customers – especially if there’s distance between you and your actual operations. Which person do you want to be?
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 8, 2015
As business became more complex, these rigid structures grew increasingly untenable and so management theorists began to look for another way— matrixed organizations. 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.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 20, 2015
Twenty-two percent of survey participants included top-level sales leaders such as vice presidents of sales, 14% were front-line sales managers who manage salespeople, 17% were hybrid sales managers who sell directly to customers and manage other salespeople, and 47% were salespeople who carry their own quotas.
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