Small groups, well organized
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Small groups, well organized
If you want to make change, begin by making culture. Begin by organizing a tightly knit group. Begin by getting people in sync. Culture beats strategy—so much that culture is strategy.
Seth Godin • This is Marketing: You Can’t Be Seen Until You Learn To See
Think Small. Swear allegiance to the concept of small groups of smart people. Remember it well when new project groups are formed. This is a key component of Simplicity, and you must become its champion. Small groups of smart people deliver better results, higher efficiency, and improved morale.
Ken Segall • Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success
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Think Small. Swear allegiance to the concept of small groups of smart people. Remember it well when new project groups are formed. This is a key component of Simplicity, and you must become its champion. Small groups of smart people deliver better results, higher efficiency, and improved morale.
Ken Segall • Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success
sari added
Left unchecked organizations default to bureaucracy. People default to distraction.
It doesn’t take long for 3 priorities to become 10. It doesn’t take long for 2 people in a meeting to become 8. It doesn’t take long to move from people making decisions to committees.
The most productive organizations and people spend a lot of energy fighting what fe... See more
It doesn’t take long for 3 priorities to become 10. It doesn’t take long for 2 people in a meeting to become 8. It doesn’t take long to move from people making decisions to committees.
The most productive organizations and people spend a lot of energy fighting what fe... See more
Farnam Street • The Next Corner
Kyle Steinike added
Online, we need to make the big feel smaller, in the right ways. The challenge to start small from something that is currently controlled by Facebook and Google, is very hard. But people are doing it. Look at The Correspondent, or Open Culture, or Brain Pickings, or thousands of other small projects that have good communities around them. We need m... See more
Vicki Boykis • Good things don't scale
Itay Dreyfus added
Alignment is best facilitated with small groups of people. With each person added to a community, the alignment naturally shifts.
Steph Alinsug • A Culture of Intimacy: a thesis for building enduring web3 commu…
Keely Adler added
*“Despite current ads and slogans, the world doesn’t change one person at a time. It changes as networks of relationships form among people who discover they share a common cause and vision of what’s possible.
This is good news for those of us intent on changing the world and creating a positive future. Rather than worry about critical mass, our wor
... See moreradardao.xyz • Multiplayer Futures
What would group living, based on that definition, look like as a guiding principle in our lives—however we structure our homes? I think the first step toward that is building routines with others—like the ritual of a shared meal, as you mention—things you can do inside of a home and outside of one. I wanted to encourage readers to look for ways to... See more