Organisation Design18 Jun 2026
A Diagnostic for Decision Rights
FIELD NOTES — 16:9
The four-question test we run in the first week of every organisation design engagement.
Structure charts describe reporting lines. They say almost nothing about who decides.
We open every organisation design engagement with the same four questions, asked separately of eight to twelve leaders, and the disagreement in the answers is the diagnosis.
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EDITORIAL IMAGE — 16:9
Point of view2 Jun 2026
The Spans and Layers Myth
Flattening an organisation without moving decision rights just gives the same bottleneck a bigger team.
FIELD NOTES — 16:9
Field notes26 Feb 2026
Retention After a Restructure
The people who leave after a restructure are usually not the ones the restructure targeted.
RESEARCH COVER — 16:9
Research28 Aug 2026
The Succession Gap: 2026 Regional Board Survey
61% of boards we surveyed have no ready-now internal successor for the CEO seat. The reasons are structural, not individual.