Where We Go Wrong with Collaboration
Coordination Headwind - How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds
komoroske.comCollaborators might be the most powerful forcing function for me. I could never tell someone: “Hey, I know what you think I made is great, and I know we said we were going to publish in an hour, but I suddenly realize a better way to do this and I need to redo everything. It’ll only take another 2-3 weeks/months.” Shared stakes prevents a kind of b
... See moreAt work, you’re expected to have intelligent opinions and propose smart solutions to problems. But, when you’re working on something that is very complex, it’s intimidating and exhausting to have opinions on the biggest challenges. It’s so easy to focus your attention on the issues that are easy to grok and which won’t (literally) blow up in your f
... See moreDaniel Burka • A Designer’s Guide to Parkinson’s Law of Triviality
you actually need to do the opposite and reduce your scope by shedding parts of your responsibility to enable new teams around them. This feels very counterintuitive after years of trying to gain additional scope. But the decision here is that you can either keep it all yourself and do a B job at it, or you can shed these areas to enable them to al... See more