Category: Articles
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Our misconceptions about specialization took a century to undo
For most of the modern era, the concept of specialization appeared firmly defined and understood. Split a task…
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Feedback is the Lifeblood of your Organization
The feedback signal completes the flow of value, it governs the corrections that let fast-loops function as double-loops,…
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Does Every Vantage Have Its Own Natural Speed?
Craft can run fast: daily practices, quick iterations, skills refined from session to session. Systems run slow, structure…
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Tempo: The Speed at Which We Move
The dimension of Tempo describes the pace at which our efforts can move, or need to, and whether…
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Sound, Viable, Sustainable: Three Questions for Diagnosing Organizational Health
Three different diagnostic questions collapsed into one vague ‘how’s the team doing’ — and why each needs its…
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Fast Loop, Slow Loop: Why One Isn’t Enough
Why a fast cycle of trying and adjusting needs a slower, protected cycle running alongside it, or nothing…
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The Mechanics of Mutual Entrainment
Coordination isn’t imposed from outside a system — it’s a rhythm two or more coupled parties arrive at…
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Organizations are Products too!
Why organizations drift out of step with the society that created them, and what it actually takes to…
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The Missing Return Path
Why organizations fail in full view of everyone who works there, and a system for building the return…
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Impeding the Flow of Value in Self-Managing Systems
Purpose, constraints, networked autonomy, and accountability, read through impedance and reactance rather than control.
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Leadership is just a form of Membership
Researching leadership for a book, I recently interviewed a Scrum Master who had done their college thesis on…
