Mo Shafieeha

OpenTable, Yelp, Zillow, oDesk, GrubHub, UShip, and Uber are examples of successful online marketplaces. The smartphone has accelerated these opportunities.

Rule 1: Figure Out If You’re in an Ill-Structured Domain

As a result of the bipolar disorder spectrum, two major neurological deficits have been observed: (1) there is a lack of awareness of one's own body (interoception); and (2) there is a lack of connection between the limbic system and the parietal region. The combination of talk therapy with lithium therapy, for example, would be a good treatment... See more

Principles of Organization Design

1. Free Yourself From the Past


2. Design With Knowledge of Your DNA

Designing products that address fundamental user problems is what UX and product design have always meant to me. We ought to think of usable and useful products as providing the most of what user experience entails; foremost of all, meeting user needs. Because of this, it is important to understand product thinking.

When shaping an organization in practice, your work decomposes into manipulating three levers: structure, incentives, and culture. Organization designers know they must consider the interplay between all three elements. For example, companies organized into business units tend to have different cultures at the unit level, but strong company... See more

A project manager must maintain a sense of integrity, which is an important aspect of project management. In a sense, organization design can be described as the process of creating an organization that is whole and undivided. Buildings without integrity cannot survive; projects that are not part of larger organizations may struggle to succeed.