How should sustainment warrant officers use the characteristics of a
flat organization to provide commanders with additional leverage?
It renders the government with its agencies as nodes connected to other nodes from business and civil society-and these node connections form a spread, that is, a
flat organization placing high value on cooperation for development.
I love that we are a
flat organization and we can move quickly.
We have a very
flat organization. There is almost no top-down policy.
It was always a relatively
flat organization and it has gotten flatter.
A decentralized,
flat organization started to emerge--especially on Facebook--and created an opportunity for this movement to prosper.
In the digital age, you really need to have a
flat organization, a flat environment, he said, referring to many of the office structures of Silicon Valley's most successful technology companies.
Its company culture is one that is flat, open and creative." A
flat organization is one where there is no (or very few) levels of management in between staff and executives.
Deputy Director Marion Ekpuk succinctly described the structure: "Despite our titles, we operated as a
flat organization. We wanted to create an environment that facilitated information sharing and free debate about topics for which there might not be only one right answer." And in the months after the April 2014 launch, the QDDR Office indeed had an academic air about it, one in which theories, possibilities and research trajectories swirled freely.
It's an extremely
flat organization. The project managers report directly to me, and I have people on my staff who oversee programs.
"Because we are young, at the onset [its founders] wanted it to be a very
flat organization, that is, very nimble and easy to work with," says Yeigh.