organizational chart
noun
: a chart that shows how all of the jobs in a large company relate to each other
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Dick Monfort is overdue for a new voice whispering in his ear — someone high enough in the organizational chart to effect change.
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Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 28 Sep. 2025
Most resilient and fast-growing companies are not built on a rigid organizational chart of full-time roles.
—Pranav Dalal, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
And with nearly every new turnover across the party’s organizational chart, the scales tip further in Trump’s direction.
—Bill Barrow, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2025
Executive directors will also be working under the chief of academics, according to the district's new organizational chart.
—Alexandra Hardle, AZCentral.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Aside from giving housing and homelessness its own box atop Newsom’s organizational chart, the chief selling point of the reorganization has been to simplify the state’s hydra of affordable housing financing systems.
—Calmatters, Oc Register, 15 July 2025
The department is also closing or merging scores of U.S.-based offices and rearranging its organizational chart shortly after.
—Camilla Schick, CBS News, 10 July 2025
An internal Pentagon organizational chart obtained by the Associated Press shows Phil Hegseth reporting directly under his brother in the chain of command.
—Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Mar. 2025
The essence of any autocracy is that nodes further down the organizational chart cannot communicate with one another, much less organize, without going through the central node.
—Niall Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2017
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Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 28 Sep. 2025
Most resilient and fast-growing companies are not built on a rigid organizational chart of full-time roles.
—Pranav Dalal, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
And with nearly every new turnover across the party’s organizational chart, the scales tip further in Trump’s direction.
—Bill Barrow, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2025
Executive directors will also be working under the chief of academics, according to the district's new organizational chart.
—Alexandra Hardle, AZCentral.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Aside from giving housing and homelessness its own box atop Newsom’s organizational chart, the chief selling point of the reorganization has been to simplify the state’s hydra of affordable housing financing systems.
—Calmatters, Oc Register, 15 July 2025
The department is also closing or merging scores of U.S.-based offices and rearranging its organizational chart shortly after.
—Camilla Schick, CBS News, 10 July 2025
An internal Pentagon organizational chart obtained by the Associated Press shows Phil Hegseth reporting directly under his brother in the chain of command.
—Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Mar. 2025
The essence of any autocracy is that nodes further down the organizational chart cannot communicate with one another, much less organize, without going through the central node.
—Niall Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2017
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