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How a Triad of Structures Allows Companies to Absorb Complexity

Niels Pflaeging
LinkedIn, 2017
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Recommendation

Business organizations are complex and contain multiple leadership structures. Niels Pflaeging defines the three distinct organizational systems that all businesses must leverage and identifies their strengths, weaknesses and potential outputs. Business leaders and managers who want to understand the organizational structures within their company should read this article.

Take-Aways

  • Recognizing alternative organizational leadership structures is challenging the way businesses view leadership.
  • “Formal Structure” – the most commonly understood leadership structure – follows a hierarchy that gives ultimate authority to one leader at the top.
  • “Informal Structure” involves networks of individuals where influence is valued over hierarchy as a core of element leadership.

About the Author

Niels Pflaeging is the author of Organize for Complexity. He founded the BetaCodex Network and was a director with the Beyond Budgeting Round Table.

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