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I learnt recently that 'org design' as a term has been co-opted by the management consultants to basically mean 'do layoffs'.

4:21 AM · Jun 25, 2022TweetDeck

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What's the Michaelangelo quote we all learn in business school: The team is already complete within the org chart, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.

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Chinese tech now call it ‘optimisation’ or ‘graduating’

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Or use restructures as if its the only tool available to them

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'Right sizing'

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I've witnessed a "Strategic Realignment Plan" that was basically hiring BCG to do layoffs

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management consultants. in my experience, are very unoriginal, co-opting a lot of positive sounding terms to generate billable hour work with little thought behind it. As for the orgs, my partner likes to say, you can't shrink to greatness.