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The Shape of Power: Organizational Structure and Authority
Most leaders default to the pyramid because it's what everyone else is using, but recent research shows that classic hierarchies may quietly suppress adaptability and innovation. There are at least six fundamentally different organizational shapes, and the right one for your business depends less on convention than on your talent pool, task complexity, trust level, and strategic intent. Surgeons operate in hourglasses. Clinical nurses work in diamonds. What shape is your firm

Dr. David Macauley
5 min read


Stop Waiting for Normal
New research from King's College London: only 16.7% of Covid patients held potent antibodies past 65 days. If the findings hold, the virus behaves more like the common cold than chickenpox, and any vaccine may offer only a short window of protection. The implication for business leaders is blunt, duck-and-cover strategies will fail. The job isn't to wait out the virus. It's to build a business that thrives alongside it.

Dr. David Macauley
3 min read
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