Coordination Headwind - How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds
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Coordination Headwind - How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds
It is fiendishly difficult to get lots of people to make decisions and work together both non-hierarchically and effectively.
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A really intriguing set of findings of AI researchers that needs more exploration, replication, and expansion: AI agents given personalities and backgrounds, and placed into a virtual formal organization (with CEOs, VPs, etc.) outperform normal AI in doing complex tasks. https://t.co/BLGmg9txYA
Finally, the last bucket is process, which describes how your team works together. You might have a superbly talented team with a very clear understanding of what the end goal is, but if it’s not apparent how everyone’s supposed to work together or what the team’s values are, then even simple tasks can get enormously complicated. Who should do what
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The “it” is about the issue at hand—for instance, how to revise a production schedule given a delay in shipping. Maybe there’s disagreement about the steps different teams have taken to get to this point, or unspoken beliefs about who is at fault or responsible for the delay. The “we” concerns all the unsaid aspects of your relationship with others
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