Difficulty of Unnatural Organizational Structures
2004 July 6
One of the biggest problems I’m having is my realisation that if a company organizes naturally (Jaques’s “requisitely”), they can do just about anything and succeed. If they are dysfunctionally organized, almost no “best practice” will really work.
I’m looking at learning activities for BIG and realised that nothing will work well. We can do some little things here, and push a couple of things here, but the only thing that would actually help them is to give their employees “real” managers with accountability for results. Since BIG’s IT group is multi-matrixed (three to four bosses per developer, and assigned to as many as four concurrent development projects) there’s little chance that much we discuss will actually do any good.
