Understanding Organizations...Finally!

PART III

FOUR FUNDAMENTAL FORMS OF ORGANIZATION

The time has come to put the Humpty Dumpty of organizing back together again, or, if you prefer, to return to complete cows. Enough deconstructing the organization into its parts; now we reconstruct these parts into wholes.

If there is no best way to organize, how many ways can there be? Four. To start, at least, in this part of the book. Later we shall consider seven ways, until we will come to the true answer, which is as many ways as we can imagine, under the circumstances. For now, however, we will respect an insight from Yogi Berra, the zany catcher of the New York Yankees baseball team, who, when asked if he would like his pizza cut into four pieces or six, replied: “You’d better make it ...