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The coordination headwind is inexorable. It increases super-linearly as: 1. Uncertainty increases; 2. Projects teams get larger and more spread out; 3. A more bottoms up culture.
Alex Komoroske • Coordination Headwind - How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds
Research indicates that one of the best ways to gauge the value of other people’s judgments is to look for convergence between them.
Adam Grant • Hidden Potential
Many deciders, team leaders, or product managers will emphasize the importance of communication between teams, the great value of varied perspectives, and getting a mixed group of people around the table. They’ll praise team members for being the glue or the cement, the more fluid connectors between the “bricks” of specialists. But they usually lea... See more
Patrick Tanguay • Generalists
workplace, read “Determinants of Perceived Fairness of Performance Evaluations,” by Jerald Greenberg, published in the Journal of Applied Psychology 71 (1986): 340–42. You can also read “Effects of Procedural and Distributive Justice on Reactions to Pay Raise Decisions,” by Robert Folger and Mary Konovsky, published in the Academy of Management Jou
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Bob Wilhelm
@r2g2
When organizations are very small, individuals matter most. But when organizations grow larger, the system - its structure and dynamics - comes to dominate the analysis.
Alex Komoroske • Coordination Headwind - How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds
The Peter Principle,” which says everyone rises to their level of incompetence.
James Altucher • Reinvent Yourself
Collapse 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