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Living Positions
Living Positions starts from the observation that I only experience myself in relationship, never as a fixed self moving through the world. It offers a small vocabulary (position, orientation, role, story, field, moral order) for noticing how I take up a stance with someone, how... - onHow do we construct a personal ethical framework that honors empathy, fairness, individual autonomy, and accountability without allowing one principle to consume the others?by
yeah how can we hold our people to the highest principles in a way that limits the damage of those who aren't willing to play by the same rules?
The meaning for money exchange
You’re heard people talk about work as “time for money” exchange, where you sell your limited hours to an employer for a price that makes it worth it to do stuff they care more about than you. Some people talk about shifting to charging for outcomes, instead of hours.... - jkeverybody...
When someone in power goes quiet, how do you decide whether to wait patiently or demand they speak up?
In their position, they need to speak up when decisions need to be made quickly and decisively.
We checked an org chart against reality
Every organization has two versions of itself. The org chart says who is supposed to hold authority. The record of daily work shows who people actually defer to. Almost nobody gets to see the second version. We just published a study where you can see both.... - elery...
Evolution or Extinction
Today is Charles Darwin's birthday. It has me thinking about his core idea of "survival of the fittest" and how the concept is frequently misused in business. Fittest does not mean strength. It means the most resilient and adaptable in a particular environment or ecosystem.... Have you noticed that when workplace performance dips, people's first reaction is to rush to explain it? What they rarely do is slow down long enough to notice how the work started to feel different first.... - onHave you noticed that when workplace performance dips, people's first reaction is to rush to explain it? What they rarely do is slow down long enough to notice how the work started to feel different first. by
Ralph, Thank you. This is a really thoughtful extension of the point and I agree with you on the core issue: more time is often a very blunt response to a nuanced performance problem. What you’re describing at the policy level mirrors what I see inside organizations.... - JulieI...
The coordination failure terminology is new to me. Still, I think it connects with a feeling I've had aboutt the initiation of DEI support fading/disappearing. On first read, can you make any connections?... Read the full post I love how Eric keeps referencing mainstream examples like Vanguard and Novo Nordisk and Costco, so many organizational ideas blanket exclude big companies (often with the exception of Patagonia, lol) just because they're big.... Incorruptible Organizations AMA with Eric Ries
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I wholeheartedly agree. the "onboarding" is where most of my energy is going right now bc it needs a lot of work. It sets a big context for how people engage and understand what's going on here, what's different, and therefore what can be different.... i am currently re-reading an everyone culture, and feeling similarly at the moment. the vibes i'm getting about the orgs described are very culty.
Deliberately Development Orgs are bullshit?
I expect others here read and were influenced by An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization by Kegan and Lahey? I remember first being introduced to it in a circling retreat probably 8 years ago or so.... I think there's something to this that is disincentivized by cultural scorekeeping. it's like when I did the math problem in my head and the teacher asked me to "show my work." As organizations grow, tracking becomes obsessive.... Jordan, it looks like there’s a common thread here about reconciling differing perspectives on expertise and innovation. Specifically: Annabeth is facing a challenge between embracing competition and potential pushback, indicating a need for psychological safety in hierarchical... - dave...
I have half remembered bits and pieces in my head about the different law enforcement groups involved in these kinds of things typically not collaborating about things like this - ie there is all kinds of politics between the groups about who gets to do things like secure sites...