Reengineering efforts are sweeping the country as companies shift from purely functional organizations to those that better accommodate horizontal work flows. Broad, crosscutting processes have become the new organizational building blocks, replacing narrowly focused departments and functions. How are these new organizations crafted and led?

Can an organization with a - four-decade track record of growth avoid becoming the victim of its own success? Since the Nature Conservancy was founded in 1951, it has worked to save habitats and species by buying and setting aside land. Year by year, the number of acres under its protection has increased, membership has risen, and donations have grown.

HBR Case Study. Paul Marsh, 24 the chairman, president, and CEO of Coltrane Farm Equipment & Manufacturing, is retiring in just five months-and there doesn't seem to be anyone suitably prepared to step into his job.