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

Organizational Design Matters: Block shifted from a GM structure back to functional organization to accelerate AI adoption. Sometimes you need to reorganize to unlock new technology’s potential. The centralized approach enabled unified policies and faster technical excellence across teams.

For leaders, this means rethinking what it means to build an organization. The most effective companies will be those that can orchestrate talent across traditional boundaries—full-time employees, contractors, gig workers, AI agents—around shared purposes rather than hierarchical control. The organizational challenge of the next decade is invention... See more