{"id":2153,"date":"2007-09-12T12:43:31","date_gmt":"2007-09-12T17:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.librarysupportstaff.org\/?p=405"},"modified":"2007-09-12T12:43:31","modified_gmt":"2007-09-12T17:43:31","slug":"informal-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/12\/informal-organization.html","title":{"rendered":"Informal Organization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imanet.org\/pdf\/09_07_streetwise.pdf\">Streetwise<\/a> (pdf) column in the September 2007 issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imanet.org\/publications_sfm.asp\">Strategic Finance<\/a> contains a summary of a report titled &#8220;The Informal Organization&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The focus of the report is that formal management structures are not how organizations actually work.\u00a0 Informal organization, self organizing groups\u00a0with the goal of getting a particular task completed,\u00a0is the key to\u00a0success.<\/p>\n<p>The organizations with the highest success will be those who recognize and encourage informal organization, and encourage feedback and communcation among and between all levels of the management structure.<\/p>\n<p>The complete report is available by mail at no charge by sending an e-mail to Alexandra Corriveau (\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:Alexandra@sommerfield.com\">Alexandra@sommerfield.com<\/a> ).\u00a0 I have ordered my copy, and I suspect it will be a beneficial read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Streetwise (pdf) column in the September 2007 issue of Strategic Finance contains a summary of a report titled &#8220;The Informal Organization&#8221;. The focus of the report is that formal management structures are not how organizations actually work.\u00a0 Informal organization, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/12\/informal-organization.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2936,2956],"tags":[3598,3599,4141],"class_list":["post-2153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-groups","category-periodicals","tag-alexandra-corriveau","tag-informal-organization","tag-the-streetwise"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-yJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}