The Skill of Org Design - The Commoncog Blog

I greatly enjoyed this article and the practitioner approach it takes to such a complicated topic. I love that it starts not with companies, but with clubs. There is a lot of wisdom here.

I would add to it the idea of creating multi-dimensionality in an organization. You can make a structure very robust by making sure that there are as many overlapping support structures as possible, without causing confusion or conflict in those dimensions. By having a social dimension in addition to a process dimension, you create a more robust organization.