Great Leaders are Great Followers
...an unpopular and uncomfortable truth for the already powerful. Also: is followership a _stage_ of development or truly a permanent practice? Probably the latter, but how do we reinforce that?
Management
Management is a job, not a calling. Notes on the actual craft – distinct from leadership, and often more useful.
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Five Org Design Things N° 10
Pattern languages and org analysis; RTO is bad, even if offices are good; old maps made 3D; diverging values worldwide; exit interviews
Emergent Learning & Development: Guide to How and Why
Included in this guide are a few ways to re-think your approach to development, some prerequisites to this approach, and three ideas for how to sprint toward a new way.
Five Org Design Things N° 7
Collaboration edition! Yumemi’s org design; Collaboration is dead; Elbows of data; How to make good documents; How to run good workshops
Five Org Design Things N° 5
Excess management, Big-biz hiring stall, AI for organizing, Issues at Salesforce, and my thoughts on carve-outs 'n' central services.
The Great Managerial Transfer
The coming transfer from hierarchies of individuals to networks of teams, an exploration of executive comp, and a look back to the 1950s.
Flattening
Basic premise: because technology (and other factors), firms were able to flatten, putting more managers under the direct control of a senior leader.