I recently came across an excellent article in The New York Times from economist Adam Davidson (co-founder of NPR’s Planet Money). In it, he describes his experience working as a technical adviser on the film The Big Short and the unique group dynamics he saw while working on set (this is further expanded on in …
The Hollywood Model and Adapting to the Future of Work Read More »
I recently came across an article on Life Edited that discussed a study of how families utilize the space in their homes. The study tracked the movement of 32 families in the Los Angeles area over two days. Each dot on the diagram below represents the location of one family member during a 10-minute interval. …
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Why is it that many large-scale change initiatives fall short of expectations? Some might say it’s because leaders weren’t communicating the effort effectively. Others might say employees were stuck in a “business as usual” attitude. I would argue that the failure of many change efforts can be attributed to three factors: The organization didn’t target the …
Redefining Business As Usual: An Introduction To Orghacking Read More »
In my previous post, I discussed how self-organization (or emergent order) is the foundation for organizational success. In this post, I’d like to propose some ideas for working with emergent orders (rather than against them) to enhance the workplace. First and foremost, the concept of emergence can be difficult to grasp. Emergence is an impersonal …
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Although it’s been out for a couple years, I recently reread Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s books The Black Swan and Antifragile. When they came in out the midst of the recession, they quickly caught the attention of readers looking for answers as to why we didn’t see the financial crisis coming and how can we protect …
Manage Risk By Building Antifragile Organizational Cultures Read More »
The world is a fascinating place. Ever wonder how we are able to accomplish so much without one person directing all the moving pieces? iPhones, Wikipedia, cars, the shoes you wear, last night’s dinner; all these things were made possible through the efforts of thousands of people each pursuing their own ends, and in doing …
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Companies are taking creative measures to counter ‘meeting fatigue.’ From cutting meetings to a magic length (at Google, this is 50 minutes) to stand-up meetings (yes, standing vs. sitting), leaders are trying everything to improve efficiency and effectiveness of meetings. Yet, how often do we still leave meetings dissatisfied with the outcome? It was too …
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For years, businesses have relied on experience, trial and error, and heuristics to make decisions. But, change is in the air. Data analytics has added a new dimension to the decision-making process, giving business leaders access to new, previously unavailable insights. Unfortunately, there may be a split in the business world regarding its use. While …
Organizational Development: Balancing Analytics and Intuition Read More »
With the rapid adoption of technology into today’s organizational culture, data collection and analysis is becoming a common component of the way we do business. However, this new reliance on data brings a new host of challenges, including how to combine and share this information across the organization in order to get as much value …
How Decentralizing Data Informs a Successful Organizational Culture Read More »
In my previous post, I talked about the status of Big Data. In this post, I’d like to discuss some of the ethical issues we’re facing in the data world. We are at an interesting crossroads between data and culture. Today, we have the ability to collect and analyze large amounts of data (much of …
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