Coordination Headwind - How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds
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Coordination Headwind - How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds
But, functional divisions grow into fiefdoms, and what was once a convenient division of labor mutates into the “stovepipes” that all but cut off contact between functions. The result: analysis of the most important problems in a company, the complex issues that cross functional lines, becomes a perilous or nonexistent exercise.
Peter M. Senge • The Fifth Discipline
My goal is to structure teams around minimizing “coordination headwind,” as described by Alex Komoroske in this deck on seeing organizations as slime mold. The rough idea is that coordination costs (caused by uncertainty and disagreements) increase with scale, and adding managers doesn’t improve things. People’s incentives become misaligned. People... See more
Lenny Rachitsky • How Perplexity builds product
Coordination Failures occur when a group of humans could achieve a desirable outcome by working together but fail to do so because they don't coordinate their decision-making
Kevin Owocki • Crypto Can Fix the World on Bankless
The role of managers, for example, is a coordination mechanism to ensure people are broadly aligned and doing what they’re supposed to.