Openness drives profitability
A hot one from the "I'm right and you're wrong" beat (sorry for the clickbait headline, but please click
Org Design
The core topic of this site: how organizations are put together, why it matters, and what to do when it stops working.
28 posts
Two Camps
If you've ever been reorg'd and thought "this is bullshit," guess what? You were probably right. In a 2013 McKinsey survey of 2,063 executives, 1,534 had experienced a redesign at their current organization. Among respondents personally involved in one, 21% said the
Five OD Things N° 14
Code as proposal; Gusto deletes a surprising amount of product development; the coordination problem hiding inside AI productivity; social intelligence; systems thinking remembers its parents.
When Everyone Delayers at Once
Volkswagen gave a headhunter an unusual brief: find jobs, somewhere else, for 400 to 500 of its own managers. The headhunter turned it down. "I told them we cannot do it...we do not have 400 executive roles that need filling."
Regarding Platforms
Why internal and external platforms will change the way we organize for the better.
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.
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
Survey on Hidden Patterns
Please participate in my survey on patterns and performance in organizations, at survey.hd-pt.com. It takes 5 minutes!
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?
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.
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!
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