Thinking like a gardener not a builder, organizing teams like slime mold, the adjacent possible, and other unconve…
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Thinking like a gardener not a builder, organizing teams like slime mold, the adjacent possible, and other unconve…
“There is this famous story about a university in Russia,” says Lomtadze. “First, they built the buildings. But instead of paving the roads on campus, they allowed people to find their own way. Once the trails were formed, they laid the concrete. This is how we think about our process.”
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komoroske.comCollapse the talent stack every chance you get . As I reflect on the teams I’ve led and hundreds of start-ups I’ve worked with, there is a consistent unfair competitive advantage i’ve witnessed when the talent stack was collapsed - when the lead designer was also the product leader, when the front-end engineer was also a designer, when the designer... See more