The traditional ‘org chart’ that we used to be able to take for granted - would list who was at the ‘top’ and who was next and so on. As things have flattened out in various organizations and business the pure hierarchy does not always pan out. As networks become more important business organizations realize they can achieve more through people than they can through ‘politics’.

A humorous example of some org charts can be found at The Transitioner - scroll down a little to see the various types of org charts. After looking at them a little while I began to realize that I had worked in companies that operated like some of them and I wasn’t anywhere near the ‘top’ in most cases.

…and while we’re on the topic of organizational networks - there is a great blog that features some very insightful posts about this (and many other related topics) …