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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
“When a workplace culture starts to feel off, do you trust the vibe you feel first or the data someone shows you later?”
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The Relateful Company should embrace more job titles
We’re under-appreciating orange. We’ve included the green critiques, like the classic: "What gets measured gets managed — even when it’s pointless to measure and manage it, and even if it harms the purpose of the organisation to do so" - V. F.... 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 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... Incorruptible Organizations AMA with Eric Ries
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Complexity def gets higher and reason why so many of us fall back to default patterns/norms or keep things super small sizes. Some friends of mine turned me towards https://mikikashtan.org/ work that seems interesting.... Some of this feels adjacent to one of the pieces of the Kantor model that I haven’t made too much noise about. As well as the meaning / affect / power "domains", there are different "action stances" - moving, following, opposing and bystanding (going meta / naming the context).... 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.... - nat...
I get really curious about what these leftover feelings are that you haven’t attended to and what it means… what is the undesired outcome… if you give CE your attention.... It seems really plausible to me that Ellyn and Thea have some knowledge/expertise here is being missed, and that when you have that knowledge it kind of ethically obliges to do certain straightforward things (and make a best effort on some others) in order to meet a minimal duty... 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.... - JulieI...
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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.... - 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....