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Playing “What If?” with Your Organization
Published 11 November 8 4:41 PM | Aaron
Here’s a scenario: you’re a manager of a marketing communications department with ten employees, and you’ve just been given the word from upstairs that you need to cut $200,000 out of your payroll by the end of the week. What do you...
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Four Ways to Make Your Org Charts More Useful
Published 4 September 8 9:15 AM | Aaron
Using my own job as SmartDraw’s Community Outreach Manager as an example, this is what I would normally be given as soon as I joined the organization: This is a pretty basic organization chart —it shows whom I report to, along with a few other...
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The Organization / Communication Gap
Published 2 September 8 6:22 AM | Aaron
In my previous article on why businesses need roles , I mentioned that you use roles primarily as an HR tool. Specifically, I said: This is the human resources half of roles—roles are a means to apportion and assign responsibility for different...
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Org Charts: The Blueprint for Your Organization's Growth
Published 28 August 8 5:39 AM | Aaron
As Paul pointed out in his article, “ Why the Organization Chart is Not Obsolete ,” the real purpose of org charts —the most common method for expressing roles—is to build a blueprint for your organization’s future growth...
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Why Businesses Need Roles
Published 26 August 8 11:29 AM | Aaron
In the course of our conversation about growing a business without growing pains , I’ve raised two central topics: processes and roles. I’ve already beaten all of you over the head with article after article on processes so far this month...
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Why the Organization Chart is Not Obsolete
Published 12 May 8 4:0 AM | Paul
It's fashionable to view the traditional top-down org chart as about as relevant to today's growing businesses as the three-piece suit. Today we self-organize into ad-hoc teams that form and melt away again, or so the theory goes. As someone who has built...
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