Also enjoyed Anders on the whiteboard. Minimum serious whiteboard is (far) larger than people often realize. I like this one:
Also enjoyed Anders on the whiteboard. Minimum serious whiteboard is (far) larger than people often realize. I like this one:
Conceptual integrity in turn dictates that the design must proceed from one mind, or from a very small number of agreeing resonant minds.
Frederick P. Brooks Jr. • Mythical Man-Month, Anniversary Edition, The: Essays On Software Engineering
The shared brain also needs a shared memory—of what was tried in the past, or how to respond to unlikely but threatening risks. A well-organised memory is one justification for a permanent civil service. But few governments organise their memories very well, and many large organisations struggle to know what they know.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
The chief reason why ideation is now so important is that it starts at the beginning; in the truest sense of exploration. The main argument as to why generalists can offer such valuable assistance with this is that they can hunt down and recognize more different possibilities than can specialists. Generalism is not simply a nice-to-have; it’s essen... See more
Steve Hardy • What Specifically Do Generalists Do?
In an ideal state, it is the single source of truth that helps to inform every individual in the firm about what everyone else is up to. Information should be easy to add (input) as well as easy to search and find (output) resulting in quick knowledge transfer between different employees.