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Is the Flattened Firm Falling Flat?

LDRLB

For the past few decades, the business press and management consultants have pushed for large organizations to flatten their structure. Flattening usually refers taking two actions to change organizational structure – removing layers of middle management while widening the span of control for the managers that are left.

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There Are 4 Futures for CMOs (Some Better Than Others)

Harvard Business Review

These executives have responsibilities we might expect to reside within marketing. That leaves Chief Marketing Officers with a decision — do you see the rise of these roles as an opportunity or a threat? Marketing faces a particular challenge since customer engagement has traditionally been considered its domain.

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