Lessons from Collin Powell – LESSON 9/19: “Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing”
Organization charts are frozen, anachronistic photos in a work place that ought to be as dynamic as the external environment around you. If people really followed organization charts, companies would collapse.
In well-run organizations, titles are also pretty meaningless. At best, they advertise some authority, an official status conferring the ability to give orders and induce [...]
