Flat organizations reduce management layers to boost communication, agility and morale, but they may struggle with role ...

A flat organization has fewer managerial layers than a hierarchical company. The flat company may have as few as one or two levels of managers who supervise the rest of the employees. This creates ...

Picture the most successful companies in the world; they have one thing in common — an effective organizational structure. But what exactly does that entail and how can it make or break a business? If ...

If you don't design an organizational structure, you'll end up with one anyway. Organizational structure happens at every company, either by conscious choice or unconscious evolution. Conscious choice ...

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Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. It’s naive to fully disregard traditional pyramid-shaped corporate hierarchies as a thing of the past. They have survived for so long for ...

When my co-founder and I started Invoice Home, we wanted to build a business that could grow over time. We noted many inefficiencies while discussing our past experiences working within traditional ...

A study found women are less likely to apply to jobs at companies with very lean management, creating a ‘diversity deficit.’ When successful startups and their staffs expand, many founders ...

Companies that have rejected hierarchies have typically lacked diversity and, in at least one case, faced scandal. A new crop of them is aiming to find a middle ground. By Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff ...

We’re always searching for new ways to “manage.” Why, I don’t really know. All structures are flawed, so, as the argument goes, pick one and live with it. But the pandemic work-at-home challenge has ...

As entrepreneurs who run growing companies, it’s tempting to operate your organization as lean and mean as you can. That’s why when it comes to hiring people, you tend to think in mainly terms of two ...