The suggestions for these five structural areas are as implementable for CEOs as they are for small teams. Whether your goal is to restructure the entire organization or just tinker with the way your small group operates, you can apply Tony-inspired ideas on the scale that’s appropriate for you. It may be that all you can reasonably do at the moment is start establishing some basic rituals for your group, which is terrific. It’s also possible that you have the opportunity to use a number of these concepts—you have a great need for a sit-down conflict resolution approach as well as for facilitating more open communication among your people.
Whatever you choose to do, I trust that Tony’s way of dealing with structural issues will help you rethink your own attitudes about group operations. At the very least, they should prompt you to rethink some basic assumptions about and consider some alternatives to traditional structures. Or, as Tony might put it:
TONY’S STRUCTURAL AHA!
Don’t get too fancy with the way you organize things and make sure your structure is as flexible as a Bada Bing! dancer’s muscles.