Adam Zeiner
@dezein
a persistently curious generalist (parading as a strategic designer, facilitator, and organizer) attempting to wrangle complexity
Adam Zeiner
dezein.info
The principles we use to build systems maps haven’t changed much since the 1980s.
Ryan Mohr • Making systems more approachable
Kristin Taylor, Blog: The waves of civic tech
kristinkristin.comCommunity Design and
systems thinking and
This explains a good deal of what works and doesn't work for teams, especially when it comes to their mission. For highly capable knowledge-work teams (marketing teams, software teams, research team, etc.), low-leverage missions tend to be uninspiring.
Clay Parker Jones • Pace Layers for Organization
The untangling of the military from modern organizations is accelerating, and its influence is waning.
Aric Wood • The Organization as a Machine: An Outdated Concept - XPLANE | Organizational Change Management Consulting
Pace Layers help visualize, distinguish, and discuss different kinds of work and teams within an organization. Here, I bring together a bunch of great thinking into a single construct.
Clay Parker Jones • Pace Layers for Organization
Design organizations are increasingly expected to contribute to product strategy, but these structures support little more than product delivery. If the team is asked to develop a vision for the future product experience 2-3 years out, how do they get it done?
Peter Merholz • Creative and Strategic Leadership in Design Orgs—Super-Senior ICs and the Shadow Strategy Team (3rd in a series on Emerging Shape of Design Orgs), Peter Merholz
...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.