The secret behind successful companies is careful organizational design. Learn how the top teams structure their hierarchy and why.

Organizational Structure

Both structural organization and financial organization can be tricky to navigate at any company. Learn the difference between the two and how to best handle such a transformational time. 

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How to Best Handle a Company Reorganization

Public org charts can significantly improve every part of a company’s functionality by placing emphasis on the most important aspect of every organization: its people. As 2021 comes to an end, The Org revisits the top ten of our most popular public company org charts and the positions that have piqued the interest of our visitors.


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The Most Popular Org Charts of 2021

Fintech companies are disrupting legacy financial giants. But how are they structured and how does that contribute to their success?

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What is a Typical Org Structure at a Fintech Company?

There are five major corporate reporting structures, based on different types of organizational structures. This is all of the information you need to decide which is best for your company. 

5 Types of Company Reporting Structures

5 Main Types of Company Reporting Structures

The Org Co-Founder and CEO Christian Wylonis explains the value of having a public-facing org chart for your company. 

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Why Companies Should Have a Public Org Chart

The size and scale of the U.S. railroads were unlike anything the business world had ever seen. In 1855  leading management thinker Daniel McCallum was brought in to help the New York and Erie Railroad organize its sprawling operation across the Northeast. The result is a masterful and intricate org chart, the first one the modern business world has ever seen.

An excerpt from Daniel McCallum's "Erie Plan," which mapped out the intricate different railroad lines across the New York and Erie Railroad's operation in the Northeast United States. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. 

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How the Rise of the Railroads Gave Way to the World's First Org Chart

All leaders understand the importance of being able to affect change in their organizations. Your business environment shifts quickly and if you are unable to adjust, your organization can get left behind.  The Org's contributor, Larry Spring, looks into how change affects companies. 

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Is Your Startup Going Through Change? How to do it Successfully

Nearly a year-and-a-half after the historic merger between two of the country's largest media companies, Disney has undergone a major org restructuring. Take a look at the executives that joined the team from Fox and who is leading the content teams into the next decade. 

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What Does Disney’s Org Chart Look Like After Merging with 21st Century Fox? 

In light of The Org’s latest fundraising round, we spoke with two of our new investors about why they believe organizational charts are the key to any professional's success. 

Why These VCs Think Org Charts Are the Ultimate Source of Truth 

While scaling your company, setting up an internal structure at the right point in time can be critical to the long-term success of your venture. In order to avoid chaos and organize complexity, there’s a set of best practices to achieve execution excellence at scale.

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How to Structure Your Company to Successfully Scale 

The online network of communities calls itself "the front page of the internet." It's been a staple of internet conversation and online community building for the past 16 years, but just recently has started going through a period of hypergrowth. The Org recapped the company's non-linear path to where it is today. 

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Reddit's Org Chart Evolution 

No matter the industry, all companies can benefit from an organizational chart. These charts outline company structure, work to manage workloads effectively and increase efficiency in the workplace.

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How to Build an Org Chart from Scratch

An increase in remote work means managers have to adapt to working with geographically dispersed teams. Our guide walks you through how to hire top talent remotely and manage remote teams from afar. 

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Everything You Need to Know to Build and Manage a Remote Team

Reporting structures can help out with everything from setting clear responsibilities to guiding employees on who to go to with questions and challenges. Here are six of the most common structures and examples of companies that use them. 

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What Is a Typical Org Structure at a Startup?

Apple’s most famous CEO is Steve Jobs, but the company has had a diverse team over the years. See how Apple’s org structure has evolved & what it’s like in 2022. 

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A History of Apple’s Organizational Structure

As your company begins to take root and grow, an org chart helps give your organization structure. As a result, employees in your company can be effectively managed, and newcomers can get a clear picture of what your organization is all about. 


Why Org Charts Are So Important for Startups

When founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin first launched Google in 1995, it was named Backrub. In 1998, it was incorporated as Google and, in 2015, changed its name to Alphabet. As Google has evolved, so has its complex org chart. See who the people with power are at one of the world's biggest companies.

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Breaking Down Google’s Matrix-Style Org Chart

When it comes to organizational health, building a cohesive leadership team is the first and most important thing to tackle. 

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Building a Healthy and Aligned Executive Team: A One Day Leadership Workshop Agenda 

According to a study by the Center for Banking Research at Cass Business School, getting more women on executive boards could be the solution to banks committing less fraud.

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Key to Reducing Fraud in Banks? More Women on Boards

The Org spoke with The Wanderlust Group's CEO Mike Melillo to learn more about his approach to organizational design and how moving to a four-day workweek led to one of the most productive periods in his company's history.