Building Resilient Organizations with Flexible Design Philosophy

Organizations should adopt a flexible design philosophy that presumes constant change, shifts in priorities, and investment. Building resilient organizations entails maintaining durable personal impacts and management relationships despite changes in work. Designing hierarchical organizations with manager relationships tied to specific projects or products creates challenges when the problem space evolves. Teams should not be strictly charter-bound but instead align their identity with driving business value. Managing dynamic changes within hierarchies is the most challenging aspect, prompting interest in higher leverage managers empowered to oversee multiple team members. The management complexity can be addressed by implementing tools and mechanisms to sustain contextual relationships between managers and individual contributors.