Organization

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There is a large body of work that aims to prescribe the "right organization."

Companies look to experts for the best way to organize. They seek established frameworks, methodologies, practices or solutions.

Experts claim to know the best way to organize. Consultants sell established frameworks, methodologies, practices or solutions.

The fact is that there is no right way to organize a team or a company.

Peter F. Drucker points to this in his 1999 book, "Management Challenges of the 21st Century." Peter says,

Instead of searching for the right organization, management needs to learn to look for, to develop, to test,

The organization that fits the task

This insight is as simple as it is powerful. The challenge is to embrace it. Only a select group of organizations do.