Machine. Ecosystem. (2)
Yesterday’s post laid out several reasons benefits of understanding your organisation as a machine.* But many of the important parts of your organisation don’t behave… Read More »Machine. Ecosystem. (2)
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Machine. Ecosystem. (1)
Here are two useful ways to view your organisation: as machine, and as ecosystem. A machine is usually a complicated system: lots of moving parts,… Read More »Machine. Ecosystem. (1)
Backstop
What safety nets do you have in place? If all else fails, is there a way to get the job done – even in your… Read More »Backstop
Vision. Positioning. Execution. (2)
Four types of vision: Vision of what is: the good, the bad… and the missing. Vision of possibilities: seeing what could be, or what could… Read More »Vision. Positioning. Execution. (2)
John Gardner on regeneration
Values always decay over time. Societies that keep their values alive do not do so not by escaping the process of decay but by powerful… Read More »John Gardner on regeneration
Byproduct
Tobi Lütke (@tobi) is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Shopify. In 2004, Tobi began building software to launch an online snowboard store called Snowdevil. It… Read More »Byproduct
Trust
Make your systems strong. Have a clear process: where does the money come from, where does it go? Account for it transparently: how are movements… Read More »Trust
Stability: Burke and incremental change
Steve Jobs is right about changing the world. And here’s Edmund Burke with a counterpoint – for society read ‘society’, but also, ‘family’, and ‘your… Read More »Stability: Burke and incremental change
Top posts from Seth Godin
This is a list I’ll update from time to time The digital divide is being flipped About inequality at the foundations of education in the… Read More »Top posts from Seth Godin
Vectors of value
What if all of the value you created could be understood along one of three axes: time, energy (including matter, which includes information), and space.… Read More »Vectors of value