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Organizational Order of Operations: Why Structure Should Follow Work—Not People or Titles

Janet Sherlock March 25, 2025

In math, we all learned to follow the order of operations to get the right answer. The same principle applies to organizational design—but too often, companies get the sequence wrong.…

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