Structure That Works: The CEO's Practical Guide to Organization Design

by Michael Brush

Create an organization that produces tangible results.You may have considered or undertaken restructuring in the past, knowing it can be a risky task. If you've reorganized and felt disappointed with the results, you're not alone. Statistics show that less than one-quarter of organizational redesigns succeed, with nearly half not fully implemented and a third not achieving the desired performance improvements. Ultimately, poor organizational design hampers value creation. It doesn’t have to be this way.

Structure That Works provides a guide for effective organizational design to CEOs, senior executives, board members, and OD practitioners—essentially, anyone in medium to large, complex organizations responsible for improving organizational performance or supporting leaders within these organizations. Structure That Works offers the roadmap, context, background, as well as the questions to ask and answer, ensuring you build the right structure for your business to achieve its goals.

Structure That Works provides the processes and tools

identify organization structure issues and correct themdetermine the appropriate timing for reorganizationlead a reorganization that engages people's hearts and minds throughoutdesign and implement the necessary structure to execute the strategy and deliver value to shareholders and stakeholdersand sustain and update the structure to realize ongoing benefits from the reorganization

363 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 13, 2026