Accountability Sinks — LessWrong
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Accountability Sinks — LessWrong
When I’m consulting with organizations on knowledge management around things like internal processes, I’m always surprised at how the first impulse aims at finally producing that perfect piece of documentation.
Like how cars lose value as soon as they drive off the lot, documentation often loses its living value once... See more
Keix.comstrategy is often set by one group of people, but needs to be recalled by another. Strategy is memory. The problem is memory is fickle (our brains rewrite our memories to situate the present in the past), memory is subjective (the Rashoman Effect), and memory is held by people.
When careers and job tenures were longer this worked. An organization’s... See more
When careers and job tenures were longer this worked. An organization’s... See more
Tom Critchlow • LF05 - Strategy is Memory
Especially true for remote work but true for all knowledge work organizations it’s important to emphasize context over control: Context almost happens naturally in small organizations composed of individuals who work in the same room and share the same desk. Once a company starts to grow, context is one of the first things to fall apart. Because of... See more