In the ladder's heyday communication flowed from the top down in an orderly and controlled manner. In today's lattice world, information flows more collaboratively and transparently, every which ...

[Podcast] The corporate ladder is gone. It has been replaced by a corporate 'lattice' -- a criss-cross of options. Find out what it means for your next career move.

July 09, 2010 Featured Guest: Cathleen Benko, vice chairman and chief talent officer for Deloitte LLP and coauthor of The Corporate Lattice: Achieving High Performance in the Changing World of Work.

The ladder arose in a world that presumed work must be done in an office. Organizations adopting a lattice mindset realize that providing more options for when, where and even how work gets done ...

In terms of career growth, there was only one direction to go—and that direction was hopefully up. But today, employees are much more likely to pursue a career “lattice” than a ladder.

Economic, demographic, and technological changes are all contributing to a transformation that is making the corporate ladder — a metaphor well suited for the industrial world of the last ...

Instead of a corporate ladder, Deloitte substitutes the image of a lattice on which people can step up, move laterally or down as their circumstances change. Parents can drop out or ease up ...

How Does a Lattice Organization Work?. Corporations can be organized in different ways. The traditional corporate structure is a ladder shape, or hierarchy. In a ladder structure, there are many ...