{"id":20403,"date":"2008-10-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/global2020prd.wpengine.com\/insights\/leadership-in-complex-companies\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T14:59:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T14:59:26","slug":"leadership-in-complex-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/insights\/leadership-in-complex-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Leadership in complex companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12836\" src=\"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/changeboard.jpg\" alt=\"Logo &quot;Changeboard&quot;\" width=\"216\" height=\"41\" \/>In the last 20 years, organizations have become massively more complex. Driven by globalization and enabled by information technology they operate in multiple cultures, locations and across time zones with highly diverse sets of employees.<\/p>\n<p>Organization structures have become more complex too. <a title=\"What is a matrix?\" href=\"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/matrix-management\/matrix-structure\/matrix-organization-structure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Matrix organizations<\/a> are common with multiple reporting lines and competing priorities. Virtual working is common where teams rarely (if ever) meet and work on several teams at once.<\/p>\n<p>Yet our expectations of leadership have barely changed. If I look at a typical leadership training program, I see many of the same approaches I would have seen in the 1980&#8217;s &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest of this article:\u00a0<a title=\"Leadership on Changeboard\" href=\"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/articles\/leadership-complex-companies-2\/\">Leadership in Complex companies by Kevan Hall at the Changeboard website<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"title title--h3 title--purple\">Why not&#8230;..?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Find out more about <a title=\"virtual teams training\" href=\"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/training-for-virtual-teams\/\">training for Virtual Teams<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Find out more about <a title=\"matrix training\" href=\"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/matrix-management-training\/\">training for people who operate in a matrix organization<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leadership in complex companies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","type-blog","training-matrix-management"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.6 (Yoast SEO v27.6) - 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