Bad design metaphor

I always warn my customers against following corporate structure while building a website. The way an organization is structured on the inside is almost always completely different from how it appears to people on the outside. This quickly becomes obvious when you design and develop for the web, but I never thought about it as a bad design methaphor:

When most of us think about bad design metaphors, we think of horrible screen interfaces that look like books, or look like desks, or look like television sets. But, the most common metaphor that leads to bad design is mimicking org charts or corporate structure. A design that follows corporate structure “just because” is just as bad as an interface that mimicks a book or a work desk or a television set.