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Why We Need to Build Human-Scale Organizations
As anything scales too effectively – from restaurants and ad agencies to social networks and search engines – the market opens for more non-scalable alternatives. Once Starbucks opens on every block, we crave the artisanal coffee shop. There's the identity piece of it, where we want some degree of distinctiveness. But there's a practical side too: ... See more
Notes on scale + quality
But our current organizational constructs have been focused on scale at the cost of connection.
Nilofer Merchant • 11 Rules for Creating Value in the Social Era
It’s a pivotal instrument to confront the multitude of challenges, tiny and towering, urgent and slow-burning, local and global, facing people, communities, society, and future generations in the twilight of industrial era capitalism.
Umair Haque • The New Capitalist Manifesto: Building a Disruptively Better Business
With the innovation of the org chart McCallum eased the tradeoff between scale and efficiency that many organizations face as they grow. This new ‘operating system’ for firms operates even more effectively in modern times by leveraging the internet, but the tradeoff between scale and efficiency has not gone away. Structures and processes that work ... See more
Omar Shams • The AI Organization, part I - by Omar Shams - mutable.ai
Rather than trying to scale up an individual organization, building an increasingly large and efficient machine, they instead seek to scale out, developing stronger connections to generate impact through collaboration.