Organizational Design is a 10-part series. Use this page as the table of contents and read the posts in order.

Read the series in order

  1. The Org Chart Is a Lie (And What to Read Instead)
  2. Decision Rights: Who's Actually Allowed to Decide What
  3. The Coordination Trap (And How to Escape It)
  4. Incentives Are the Infrastructure of Behavior
  5. The Informal Power Map (Who Actually Gets Things Done)
  6. How Scale Changes Everything (And Why Reorganizations Fail)
  7. What Should Your Organization Actually Be?
  8. Why 'Good Process' Goes Bad (And the Design Rules That Prevent It)
  9. The Operating Cadence: Where Org Design Becomes Execution
  10. The Redesign Playbook: How to Actually Fix an Organization

Start with The Org Chart Is a Lie (And What to Read Instead). If you want the practical diagnostic, jump to The Redesign Playbook: How to Actually Fix an Organization.