1. What areas of an organization (e.g., what functions) do you think are the best to centralize? Which are the best to decentralize?
2. What keeps you from delegating more? How can you overcome these obstacles?
3. If you started your own company selling iPhone applications, what organizational structures would you create? Why?
4. If you wanted employees to work collaboratively and minimize conflict, what organizational structures would you consider adopting? Why? Which structures would you avoid? Why?
5. What type of person would be a good fit with Nordstrom’s extremely organic and informal structure? Why?
6. What would you do during a corporate restructuring to ensure that your best employees did not leave?