coordination
organizations; organizational design; systems
coordination
Predicting ten years into the future is hard https://t.co/kh3mDAOIgd
and he was yet again correct just one year later
...we’ve been trained to think of organizations as homogenous and mechanistic, with a clear set of rules, a command-and-control structure, and the ability to leverage hierarchy to get things done quickly by issuing top-down directives to reallocate resources to meet objectives.
Aric Wood • The Organization as a Machine: An Outdated Concept - XPLANE | Organizational Change Management Consulting
Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.
Richard Dawkins • The Selfish Gene
“A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with 2 watches is never sure.”
Ancient societies followed a single narrative. Modern societies are cacophonies of competing narratives. Without trust, more data doesn’t make us more informed but more confused.
Ancient societies followed a single narrative. Modern societies are cacophonies of competing narratives. Without trust, more data doesn’t make us more informed but more confused.
Gurwinder • 30 Useful Principles
As the cost of replication trends towards zero, the most crucial ingredient for value capture is judgement in decision making
Too many cooks spoil the broth
"Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure."–Marvin Conway
Wikipedia • Conway's law
I sense nobody wants to talk about maybe the most successful US industrial policy in history: the auto bailout of 2008.
Why so uncomfortable?... Two factors I think:
Adam Ozimekx.com