Old is beautiful

Radial Form of Organization Chart (1924)

Alexander Hamilton Institute

“The radial form of organization chart, showed in the image, has not so much to recommend it as the block and line system. In the first place it is difficult to draw it so as to show lines of authority. It places the emphasis on the central authority, while making it difficult to ascertain the relations of the subordinate divisons to each other.”


Source:
W. H. Smith., Graphic Statistics in Management (McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, ed. First, 1924).

Estimated Budget Chart (1940)


Source:
H. Arkin., Graphs: How to make and use them (Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, ed. Revised, 1940).

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