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Org Design

The core topic of this site: how organizations are put together, why it matters, and what to do when it stops working.

23 posts
Roles Org Design Teams

The End of Role Clarity

Role clarity is a symptom of relational poverty, and small team with real trust are going to out-deliver our absorptive capacity unless we do...something.

Artificial Intelligence Org Design Strategy

Five OD Things N° 13

Company as code; a city is not a computer; AI as cybernetic teammate; a field experiment rewires the org chart; when it starts feeling like a video game

Org Design Culture

Survey on Hidden Patterns

Please participate in my survey on patterns and performance in organizations, at survey.hd-pt.com. It takes 5 minutes!

Org Design Culture Values

Design Feeling

Naoto Fukasawa designs objects that disappear into use. Most org design disappears into frameworks. What if we took feeling as seriously as thinking?

Artificial Intelligence Teams Org Design

INSEAD: AI Changes the Org Chart

It is an article of faith among technologists that artificial intelligence will make workers more productive. A new field experiment suggests it may do something more interesting: make them more social.

Org Design Structure Strategy

Structure Is Not Organization

Going back to the archives with the original attempt to join hard and soft elements of organization design. Also, I missed a day. Oops!

Org Design Culture Values

Super Performance

TL;DR: We lack a shared, rigorous way to assess an entire organization – most tools either miss key drivers or apply only to specific domains. By meta-analyzing 102 criteria from 14 seminal sources, from Rams’ Design Principles to the Agile Manifesto to Jane Jacobs' Generators of Diversity, this post

Org Design Culture

Hidden Patterns is Open for Pre-Order

Hey there! I wrote a book. It's about fixing the about fixing the invisible stuff that makes work suck. I'd be honored if you gave it a read.

Org Design Culture Management

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

Videos Org Design Strategy

How to Combine Pace Layers, Org Design, and Strategy

4 ways to use Pace Layers in strategy and OD work: 🚀 As a career planning tool; 🎓 As a strategy tool; 🔬 As a diagnostic or sense-making tool; 🎨 As a design tool for value-adding layers.

Structure Roles Org Design

The Matrix Design Canvas

A tool that helps managers and individual contributors design systems that get better performance out of dual-reporting roles.