Sublime

solution, of course, is to convert the past experience and expertise of the individual into the expertise of the firm by accepting the similar project, but utilizing a greater proportion of juniors on second-or third-time projects.

“Institute leadership. The aim of supervision should be to help people and machines and gadgets to do a better job. Supervision of management is in need of overhaul, as well as supervision of production workers.”

Impulsive-Red Organizations don’t scale well for those reasons—they rarely manage to keep in line people who are separated from the chief by more than three or four degrees.

“Institute leadership. The aim of supervision should be to help people and machines and gadgets to do a better job. Supervision of management is in need of overhaul, as well as supervision of production workers.”

heads down coding and building product. At fifteen to twenty people, you need to start the process of delegating your engineering responsibilities. The only way you’re going to achieve this is to absolutely trust your engineering team. Hire the best chief technology officer you can find and the best engineers you can find. At first, review all thei

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).

Allen and Sandow’s view of social systems was influenced by the Chilean biologist Humberto Maturana, who is famous for his pioneering studies of cognition in living systems. Maturana says that intelligent action is created in social systems where all the members of a network accept the others as legitimate participants in the network.

“activity trap”: