Mapping business: Worthwhile: Pecking orders and network orders: "Take the org chart. Treat it not in the usual way as a network of people but as a network of positions. Look at how many people report in to each position. Diagram it. The picture that emerges looks little like a neat hierarchy in which the lower you go, the more leaves there are on the tree. Instead, the org chart now looks like a diagram of self-organizing networks: A handful of hugely linked nodes and a whole bunch of ones with just a few links. Further, most of the biggest clusters belong to mid-range positions. "It's a diamond, not a pyramid" says Jeff."
# Dec 3, 2004