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54. Your Org Chart Executes Your Strategy
Structure should be deliberately designed around the company’s unique goals.
Roles and reporting lines determine what information moves, who decides, and which work receives attention. Copying an industry-standard org chart can quietly force a generic strategy onto a company. If structure is not designed from strategy, the existing structure will begin to define strategy instead.
Work backward from the capabilities and coordination the next year’s plan requires. Invent roles when necessary, clarify decision rights, and expect the leadership shape to change as the company grows. Redesign proactively; incumbents rarely volunteer that their own role has become the wrong one.
Original sketch and model by Paras Chopra. Read the source chapter.