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This Insight is a short video from our TopLeaF series called:
"What is First: Strategy or Structure"
It is one of the cornerstones of management theory that strategy precedes structure. It makes sense, doesn't it? How can you structure an organization without knowing what it intends to do - what its strategy is? Architects and design engineers will all agree that form follows function.
Adizes experience is that the strategy should precede structure, but in reality it does not. In reality, structure precedes strategy. The reason is that strategy is neither decided nor implemented by an individual. It is set by a group of people who interact, decide, and implement their decision. What they decide and implement is a result of their interests as they perceive them. Their interests are brought about by the power and responsibilities that the organization chart offers them.
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