"Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.“


-Harold S. Geneen

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Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.

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