Special feature: Your hierarchy is your strategy

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A leader’s approach to hierarchy can have profound strategic implications for their organisation. In this special feature, with the help of experts from McGill University, we’ll explore the strategic opportunities that come from engaging employees up and down the ladder – and what it means to have a hierarchy in the first place, and what it would mean to abandon them entirely.

We start with Professor Henry Mintzberg, exploring how insights from across an organization can transform its strategy. Then, with help from Professor Quy Huy, we explore how emotional awareness is key to unlocking this strategic potential. And finally, we pull from anarchist perspectives to understand how hierarchies – or the abandonment of them – reflects organisations’ values and identity.

Eric Dicaire, Managing Editor at McGill Delve, wrote this story and narrated this episode.

ADDITIONAL LISTENING

Strategy as care, with Henry Mintzberg - https://bit.ly/43N9oOq

Managing with anarchism, with Jayne Malenfant and Hannah Brais - https://bit.ly/4p28yG7

Can strategy be emotional? With Quy Huy - https://bit.ly/44jH720

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ABOUT MCGILL DELVE

McGill Delve is the official thought leadership publication of the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University. Learn more at delve.mcgill.ca

Professor Saku Mantere is Delve’s editor-in-chief. He also produced all the original music for the episode. Eric Dicaire is Delve’s Managing Editor.

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