Coordination Headwind - How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds
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Coordination Headwind - How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds
When participants and facilitators engage in a creative collaboration, they need to be able to pivot fluidly, not only individually but as a group, like starlings flying in murmurations.
Adam Kahane • Facilitating Breakthrough: How to Remove Obstacles, Bridge Differences, and Move Forward Together
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
