Situation 1- You take over in 2016 as the new District Manager of 20 stores in Eastern PA. and South Jersey and Delaware. (business you are in is irrelevant). Nearly all 20 stores are performing below company standards in their financial profit and sales/marketing revenue goals. This failure is now your job to turn around. One issue for sure is employee turnover is at an extreme high rate. Too many employees are leaving your company to work elsewhere compared to competitors who have much lower turnover rates. So with this knowledge, you have called for a meeting of all 20 store managers to come to the corporate office in Philadelphia where your office is located. There you will conduct your first all Store Manager meeting since you started just a few weeks ago. There is so much you want to tell them plus ask them questions but clearly even with this limited knowledge, there are strong messages you want to send to all 20 Managers. What three (3) messages will you as a Leader want to tell them?
Situation 2 - You and your 2 partners from college days of Temple University start a new Technology Service business and are convinced this business will grow fast, very fast. You and your partners plan to soon add many offices of regional customer service centers across America from California to Denver to Chicago to the east coast. As partners in this venture, what type of organization structure will you decide on in the early few years until the growth slows down? Centralized or Decentralized? Then tell me why is a short bullet list why you decided what you decided?