Does your org chart guarantee stagnation?

Friends, does your org chart guarantee stagnation? org chart guarantee stagnation: cartoon by Tom Fishburne: an org chart full of useless positions, with the “Manager of New Growth Ideas” vacant

Sometimes, an organization’s culture guarantees that productive change will never occur. Organizational culture unfailingly generates an organizational structure that mirrors and maintains the culture.

Want to learn a lot about an organization’s potential for change? Check out the org chart.

Photo attribution: cartoon by the always wonderful Tom Fishburne. HT to John Nosta who may have shared it at a pharma conference.


How do you facilitate change? In this occasional series, we explore various aspects of facilitating individual and group change.

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