Traditional corporate structures rewarded political skill. Knowing how to manage up. Building alliances. Navigating approval processes. Playing the game of bureaucracy.

Flatter structures with radical decision-making authority require different capabilities. You need people who can make decisions when there’s no manager to defer to. Who can work... See more

Architectural literacy is knowing how to build when all the templates are null and void.

The traditional structure - holding companies, creative shops, the pitch-retainer-fee model - doesn’t work anymore. And no one’s handing out a blueprint for what comes next. Most people respond to that by trying to save the old model. Optimise it. Make it more... See more

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