The Six Senses sphere of influence which we have introduced here is very different to the usual tree-like organization charts. The Six Senses Organization Chart has caused us many dilemmas. Every time we have tried to draw a conventional organization chart, it has looked like a spider's web with lines all over the place. At first we thought that there was something wrong with how we ran our company.

Yet on further reflection we realised that we had problems because we are not a typical structured bureaucratic company with a clearly defined hierarchy and line of control. We are an organic, boundaryless company. We do not believe in getting bogged down in over managing, over supervising, and over monitoring. We manage by creating a vision, creating enthusiasm for an idea - whether it is ours, or someone elses - and then trying to push, spread and disburse it through the entire company.

The Six Senses spheres of influence best describes this approach. The Senior Executives are not at the top of the tree, they are in the middle of the sphere. There are no strict line of command. The only boundaries, those between the core layer, inner layer, and outer layer, are blurred. The Six Senses sphere and the Hotel's and Resorts' spheres revolve around each other, they are inter-dependant, each influencing the other. Jack Welch, the Chairman and C.E.O. of G.E., the biggest company in world recently said:

"most small companies are uncluttered, simple, organic. They thrive on passion and ridicule bureaucracy. Small companies grow on good ideas - regardless of their source. They need everyone, involve everyone.....
....We love the way small companies communicate with simple, straightforward, passionate argument"