With work evolving, what will the new org chart look like? SMT Shorts

well the V New York charts in the future well I think that will have a small team of people that really want to cater to the institutional knowledge of an organization but because the majority of the work force will be freelancers they'll have to understand how to quickly assemble teams to spam tunes and spread knowledge a disparate group and a org chart will never be set in stone it'll be something very fluid than forever changing I think it's going to get flatter and flatter I think the distance between strategy and execution is constantly changing as more wrote work can be outsourced so the more that like lower-level employees are empowered I think that's going to continue to happen and the organization the more that they can put purpose and strategy to the lowest levels they'll be more successful and getting to that agility and innovation that we always talk about so I want to company 300 people and one of the things that is very clear is that people like to see a progression in their career and titles matter and this I hear this phrase all the time I know tonight was like manner but I'd still like to be ex VP of something I still like that promotion it's a validation of sense of progression in what is life and everybody wants to fill out there moving forwards and we're moving up as it were there's a secondary thing which is there's a pecking order with titles of you and we have this habit as people comparing ourselves to our neighbors so there's no way to compare to Naples has no titles then there's feel that there's something missing so we will create a way of ranking even if we tried to get rid of it so I don't see John's going anywhere actually I see more standardization of that kind of thing which you know saddens me in some ways because it's so artificial and silly but it I said I think so cause social animals in that this is it's important to us so i don't i think job titles and hierarchies are here to stay I think you have to continue to always have titles if you don't have titles you run into the situation where who really takes responsibility for what the titles tend to be a differentiator between who accepts responsibility who's accountable for what goals who's accountable for objectives and for what metrics in addition to leading different parts of the organization so I think the some degree those names may change those positions rules may change but I think you're always going to have rules with titles well with any organization you need decision-making and empower structures in order to make effective decisions so I think that we will have an arch are but it may look very different from the org hierarchical org charts that we see today it may be much more collaborative much longer rather than taller and most importantly I think that we will have titles but the titles may look different they may not be the chief financial officer they may be the chief connection officer or the chief creation officer or the head of creative strategy for not just a brand but for a group of people and I think that the future of organizations is going to look much more into building a culture that's connection alee intelligent around how each person in the organization can play a role not just in their side hello but across the entire organization with customers with clients in entirely new ways it looks very much like it does now yes I think that there are titles because I think people need to have an understanding around what's expected of them and I think titles do that in fact I ever actually believe in the traditional method of titles because i think when we start to get cute around titles it starts to get a little bit harder for people to understand what is expected of them and that goes for job descriptions and so on and so forth however you look at other companies where they carry a flat structure you know there's not that many tears that's where I see the future changing you know there are too many tears right now in a lot of different companies it makes communication hard and it is important that we start to break down those silos I know it's been said before but we do need to break down silos and understand how people can work together and the only way to do that is to open up communication on technology and to consolidate the political structure that's set in a lot of these companies so that we can actually have a much flatter organization so I always believe titles will be important only because people need to understand what people do I hope in the future that org charts will be less it'll probably always be somewhat of a hierarchical structure but certainly I think people

understand what individuals do and what they don't do that's probably the most important thing moving forward in a few you look how Millennials work today in many cases they are less cognizant of hierarchical approaches and more considering how do we work across with one another depending on what our roles and responsibilities and kpi's are oh I love this one you know I was a project manager it's some of the largest global companies around the world and i would put together what I would call a functional org chart which had to do with the project it had nothing to do with who you reported to I had to get rid of them people would go crazy and I thought how come I'm lower than someone so or higher than so-and-so so to me org charts have been one of the things that I think really stops a lot of very creative folks from thriving they feel they have to perform they have to be in a certain box so to me I would love to get rid of them because the org chart of today or tomorrow is all around what is your career aiding the value you are giving to your audience or to the world and you just make it happen and i think the org chart becomes we all sort of watch each other and if someone's not telling the truth or they're not being genuine people call you out on that so you don't eat a box anymore because the world at large is letting you know when you really are doing something that matters that resonates and stuff they care about and if you're not they'll let you know that too