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A reorganisation is announced with a new chart, several renamed teams and arrows showing who reports to whom. The picture is tidy. By the next morning, people still do not know which decisions moved, which projects remain important or where a customer problem should now go. Reporting lines are only one part of change. Explain how the work will travel. Name the responsibilities that have ended, the handovers that need care and the decisions each leader can now make. Where two teams share an outcome, describe how they will resolve the first disagreement. Leave room to revise the design once real work reveals what the diagram missed. People can adapt to a new structure when they understand the purpose beneath it. Confusion grows when they are asked to infer operating rules from boxes and titles. A thoughtful reorganisation should not merely redraw authority. It should make it easier for the organisation to know who can act, how to cooperate and what matters now.
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