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Thus, the Entrepreneurial Model does not start with a picture of the business to be created but of the customer for whom the business is to be created.
Michael E. Gerber • The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It
Wikipedia • Conway's law
Each group is given the freedom and autonomy to plan its own activities—the plan is theirs. They are not being asked to execute the ideas of others (with which they may or may not agree).
David H. Maister • Managing The Professional Service Firm
Isomorphism is the quality of related items having similar structures. Design requires isomorphism between Layers 1 and 3§ (between the technology and the social circuitry). Production requires isomorphism in all three layers. This is a recurring theme: the social circuitry (Layer 3) must support the technical work (Layers 1 and 2). Throughout the
... See moreSteven Spear • Wiring the Winning Organization: Liberating Our Collective Greatness through Slowification, Simplification, and Amplification
This means that an organization cannot evolve beyond its leadership’s stage of development. The practice of defining a set of shared values and a mission statement provides a good illustration.
Frederic Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
A corollary of Conway’s Law is that an organization’s structures themselves can be constrained by the architectures that they designed many years earlier. And without intentional action, it’s a Catch-22. “We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking we used when we created them,” Einstein said. An example of this antipattern is a
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