Five Finance Things N° 1
Handelsbanken; Cross-subsidy; Regulatory capture; The origins of Venmo; Goldman Sachs.
Five Org Design Things N° 2
Expensive communications loops; Edgerati; Leaders are awesome; The purpose of Gawker; Apple's operational effectiveness.
Designing for Autonomy
Purposeful autonomy has been, and always will be, the main goal of organizing.
Accountants & Retail Employees: Look Out
Whether or not AI eats your job has to do with three bottlenecks: Perception & Manipulation; Creative Intelligence; Social Intelligence.
Join the Revolution
When every business becomes a consumer, and every consumer becomes a business, we’ll be forced to confront the fact that 50% of our waking hours just don't make sense anymore.
Four Holacracy Misses
Four things to reconsider about Holacracy: confusing word choices, a legalistic constitution; heavy dogma; a closed-source codebase.
Five Technology Things N° 1
Laws for spacecraft design; Competing with Excel; The original iPhone prototype; Build boring features; Your app is making me fat; Rants on the future of interaction design; Why publishers hate iOS7; Big things start as toys
Four Holacracy Keepers
Four key things to keep from years practicing Holacracy: Rule of Law; Continuous Participatory Reorganization; Structured Decisions; Defined Output Formats.
Core Protocols
Most employees give themselves over to a set of rules that govern their day-to-day corporate existence. How good are those rules?
Five Org Design Things N° 1
Nine barriers to change; Nudges; Scalable learning; Learning at scale; McDonald's & Walmart are software.
