Five Org Design Things N° 2
Expensive communications loops; Edgerati; Leaders are awesome; The purpose of Gawker; Apple's operational effectiveness.
Coordination
The real work of organizations is coordination across people, teams, and time. Notes on how it breaks and how it gets fixed.
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Communicating Intent
Remember Commander’s Intent? Basically: a nugget of communicable strategy that helps a team make effective decisions in the face of changing conditions. It’s primarily a military thing, but since we use words like “campaign” a lot (whatup, Cannes?) I think we’re allowed to continue our appropriation of