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One of the most dangerous transitions that a company makes is going from fewer than ten team members to more than twenty in a short time. During this time, communication and productivity usually break down. The system of group organization that existed when the company was all sitting in the same room together suddenly no longer works when team mem

Alex MacCaw • The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building

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WHY YOU SHOULD TRAIN YOUR PEOPLE

Ben Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization

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My goal is to structure teams around minimizing “coordination headwind,” as described by Alex Komoroske in this deck on seeing organizations as slime mold. The rough idea is that coordination costs (caused by uncertainty and disagreements) increase with scale, and adding managers doesn’t improve things. People’s incentives become misaligned. People... See more

Lenny Rachitsky • How Perplexity builds product

“Once we achieve clarity and buy-in, it is then that we have to hold each other accountable for what we sign up to do, for high standards of performance and behavior. And as simple as that sounds, most executives hate to do it, especially when it comes to a peer’s behavior, because they want to avoid interpersonal discomfort.”

Patrick M. Lencioni • The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Enhanced Edition: A Leadership Fable (J-B Lencioni Series)

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Most companies do not operate in ways they realize their vision by continuously aligning business goals with customers' needs and pain points. Product teams need to be aligned on business objectives and be allowed to operate at an initiative level to impact those objectives.

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Melissa Perri • Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value

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John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs

Information technology tools such as internal social networks and knowledge repositories can play a critical role in steering clear of unnecessary structures, especially when companies grow larger and people are spread throughout different locations.