Organizational Structure
 
The company has had a flat organizational structure since its beginning in 1975. In the early 1990s, a transformation was begun which further flattened the structure. The entire company is currently organized into groups. Within each of our two organizational elements (external services and internal services) are groups. Each group is led by a senior leader. Titles such as director, officer, manager, and supervisor are not used within our company. Instead, we have corporate leaders, senior leaders, and associates.
 
Any associate in any group may serve at any time in a lead role on a particular project or task. Groups and group members often work jointly on projects and tasks. Strong emphasis is placed on cooperation, teamwork, constancy of purpose, systemic thinking, and optimization of the whole. Competition between organizational elements, between groups, or between individuals is strongly discouraged. Competitive thinking and competitive behavior are viewed as suboptimal, myopic, counterproductive, and totally out of alignment with our Continual Improvement Process. Three of the groups focus on internal services issues and tasks. The other groups focus on external services issues and tasks. The two corporate leaders of the company are Bob Webb and Bob Murray, each of whom is a registered professional engineer in the state of Texas.