- A company without organizational chart is like a house without fundament.
- A changing environment requires periodic restructuring.
- There is logical sequence in appropriate organizational forms when companies grow. It is like a growing child that needs new clothes.
- Big enterprises need big leaders. They also need a solid structure.
- Chandler said ‘structure follows strategy. He never said that structure is not necessary before and after strategy. Structure follows structure too.
- Autonomy, mastery and the higher purpose lead to great innovations. Structure and uniformity makes the innovation scalable.
- Leadership is the use of influence that leads to change for the intended organizational outcome (s).
- Leadership is the human influence in changes that makes possible what previously seemed impossible.
- A complex and dynamic environment asks for a flexible structure.
- If hierarchical pyramids stand in the way of autonomy and mastery, then concentric forms are a logical solution.
- It is matter of time until the network structure appears to be the superior one.
- In the 21th century hierarchical organizational structures have two options: merge with circles or being replaced by circles.
- The world becomes a large network structure. The resistance comes from hierarchies.
