It probably gives you an idea of context discovery when doing organization design in a large corporation. To understand what might need to change and why Microsoft's CEO Steve Sinofsky had to go through 'three months of 100 meetings. Windows leadership had to balance incentives with the structure for the organizational change to be successful. Sino... See more

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

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

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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

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