When I ask leaders and teams to concisely summarize their company’s management approach, the pause I get hangs in the air like a frisbee tossed on a windy day. No one seems to know which direction the ...
In 1916, a French coal mine director named Henri Fayol wrote a book entitled "Administration Industrielle et Generale," which set forth five distinct functions of managing that Fayol insisted were ...
Organizational structure tends to dictate an organization's management. There are two primary types of structure: tall, or hierarchical, and flat. Tall organizations are centralized; flat ones are ...