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Teal Organizations start from the premise that even for routine work, people have a sense of pride and want to do a good job.
Frederic Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
Shlomo Silber, who ran a coworking space called Bond Collective—
Reeves Wiedeman • Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork
I started wondering if the problem of dishonesty goes deeper than just a few bad apples and if this kind of wishful blindness takes place in other companies as well.
Dan Ariely • The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone--Especially Ourselves
So as organizations grow in scale, the result, as many of us feel intuitively, is the concomitant loss of creativity, flexibility, curiousity, and humanity. Mega scale organizations are not, generally speaking, very nice places to work at, shop at, or do business with, are they? That is why they are always fighting their very own inertia. Like any... See more
umair haque • Why We Need to Build Human-Scale Organizations
Whoever controls the research wins. 2. The smaller the account, the larger the committee. 3. The acquirer is always dumber than the acquiree. 4. The dumbest person in your agency will someday be your client. 5. The hotter the climate, the colder the meeting room.
Bob Hoffman • 101 Contrarian Ideas About Advertising
Core argument: This paper argues that the formal structures of many organizations in postindustrial society (Bell 1973) dramatically reflect the myths of their institutional environments instead of the demands of their work activities. Societal / institutional complexity has added to the core activities needed to perform a productive act of labour.... See more
