Why Most Executives Hate Matrix Organisations: Anarchy, Power Struggles, Severe Groupitis and Collapse During Economic Crunch – Part 1

ClusterF*** – that is how a Senior VP of a very large corporation recently described his companies matrix organisation to me. Similar to almost all other global corporations, this one was also organised along matrix lines.

For the uninitiated I will take a few lines to describe the matrix. This company operated in more than 80 countries on the face of the earth, and every country had its own CEO who reported to the regional CEO. Under the national CEO, were the functional teams – Operations, Sales, Marketing, Finance, and now also Supply Chain.…

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