Sublime

So Gorham and Evans decided to use specially selected liaisons from across the company’s functional teams to populate the content of MICs and be physically emplaced within different product groups in the company. The first “tranche” of liaisons was handpicked by March and VK, with the input of the various product group leaders, such as Ege and Van

Dennis Edmonds.

Defense Officer Personnel Management Act (DOPMA) is the root of all evil in this ecosystem, and his metapoint is that the army has done the best it can given the constraints handed down by (as he named them) Robert McNamara and the legislative branch.

a very mortal human who was willing to demonstrate behavioral standards and facilitate the interaction of teams rather than pretending to know all answers to their many problem sets.

of personal perspective was discouraged.

The first feature of an O&I that allowed for these effects was the breadth and depth of the teams that it was able to assemble, and prompt dialogue between. In order to assemble these teams and facilitate discussion, an O&I depended on someone who could “own” the operation of the forum. The voice that the Task Force’s teams heard open every

To ensure unanimity throughout the staff, make unannounced visits to various department meetings. You can lose elements of your team to a maverick staff member if you’re invisible long enough.