Good Design is Good Will
Paul Rand, org designer. I also especially like how the essay's title hints at *willfulness* and the last line points at an economic outcome. #nice
Structure
Structure is the deepest variable in organizational life. Most everything else here points back to it.
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Nestlé Is Eating Itself (On Purpose)
Nestlé is exiting ice cream, spinning out water, and cutting 16,000 roles...and it can do all of that cleanly because of a global ERP project that started in 2000 and took more than a decade to roll out. Technology!
Company as Code
Like a lot of things I write about, this is both a new and wild idea and something that's been around for a long time but hasn't really caught on. It'd be cooler if it did.
The Decision Bottleneck
More flattening, more information, not a ton of good practice around decision-making.
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!
Divisions as Differentiators
Every (big-ish) box on your org chart should have a connection to your strategy. (Almost missed today due to bad wifi on my United Flight.)
The Unbundling of the CFO at Coke
Coca‑Cola is radically reshaping how it leads and innovates to accelerate digital transformation and better connect with consumers—shaking up top roles and creating an entirely new executive seat to unify tech and strategy.
Five Org Design Things N° 9
Organizational health essential for firm performance; Avinsa; the heat death of Google; team performance research; platform teams @ PepsiCo
10x Productivity with Team Structure
…and give your business a chance to complete projects that make a big difference in terms of growth.
The Matrix Design Canvas
A tool that helps managers and individual contributors design systems that get better performance out of dual-reporting roles.
Five Org Design Things N° 8
Turns out it's about learning, all the way down: How basic technologies shift strategy; Microsoft's org structure research; X-Teams; building Service Design capability; democracy at work
How your org structure is leaving millions on the table
An approach that yields unbelievable levels of productivity, driven by a focus on the work that matters most for growth. In practice, this initially feels like cheating.