Leading Organization Design: How to Make Organization Design Decisions to Drive the Results You Want

Milestone Four Summary: Talent and Leadership

Chapter eleven: Design the Leadership Organization

• The operating model of the company and the capabilities you seek to build should be used to design the leadership structure and roles.

• There are a number of options for designing the reporting relationships of the top management team. The best option will be based on such factors as where the top executive wants to spend his or her time, the scope of the roles of direct reports, where jobs need to be placed in order for them to be effective, and comfort with wide as opposed to narrow spans of control.

• The roles of individual leaders must be defined with an integrated view of the overall work to be done and a focus on the strategic goals of the business. ...