Published in WorkMatters·2 days agoHaier EMCs: Customer Scenarios, Business Ecosystems, and Leading TargetsEach week I share three ideas to help you build better organizations. This week, those ideas are all about scenario thinking. This article was originally published in the WorkMatters newsletter on Nov 25, 2022. The term Enterprise Micro-Community or EMC originates from Haier’s Rendanheyi model. …Haier3 min readHaier3 min read
Published in WorkMatters·Jan 23Relational Alchemy: Using Love to turn Gold into PlatinumEach week I share three ideas to help you build better organizations. This week, those ideas are all about love and relationships. Originally published in the WorkMatters newsletter on Nov 11, 2022). I’ve enrolled in a coaching program which means I’ve been exposed to some (for me at least) unusual…People3 min readPeople3 min read
Published in WorkMatters·Jan 18Strategic Wandering: Pathfinding, Planning, and NonlinearityEach week I share three ideas to help you build better organizations. This week, those ideas are all about strategy and uncertainty. (This article was originally published in the WorkMatters newsletter on Nov 4, 2022). I’d like to connect a few dots today. The topic is strategic wandering and tweets…Strategy2 min readStrategy2 min read
Published in WorkMatters·Jan 16No Rules Rules: Build Talent Density, Increase Candor, and Loosen ControlsEach week I share three ideas to help you build better organizations. This week, those ideas attempt to summarize No Rules Rules—Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention. Note: this article was originally published in the WorkMatters newsletter on Nov 4, 2022. Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer’s book No Rules Rules…Netflix4 min readNetflix4 min read
Published in WorkMatters·Jan 94A Feedback Guidelines: Aim to Assist, Make it Actionable, Show Appreciation, and Choose to Accept or DiscardEach week I share three ideas to help you build better organizations. This week, there are four ideas — and they’re all about feedback. This post was first published in the WorkMatters newsletter on Oct 4, 2022. How do you give and receive effective feedback? Ask anyone at Netflix and…Feedback3 min readFeedback3 min read
Published in WorkMatters·Jan 4Paradoxical Leadership: Long and Short, Sustain and Disrupt, and Confident and HumbleEach week: three ideas to help us build better organizations. This week: three ideas for better leadership. This post was originally published in the WorkMatters newsletter on Oct 14, 2022. I’ve spent the last few weeks exploring NZS Capital’s whitepaper on complexity investing. That’s done. …Leadership3 min readLeadership3 min read
Published in WorkMatters·Dec 26, 2022Complexity Investing: Resilience, Optionality, and Barbell DistributionsEach week I share three ideas to help you build better organizations. This week, those ideas are all about building a complexity-conscious investment portfolio. Originally published in the WorkMatters newsletters on Oct 7, 2022. This is the third and final part of my exploration of NZS Capital’s whitepaper on complexity…Complexity Investing3 min readComplexity Investing3 min read
Published in WorkMatters·Dec 19, 2022Competitive Strategy: From Five Forces to Disruption to Non-Zero SumEach week: three ideas to help you build better organizations. This week: three reasons to rethink competition. Note: this post was originally published in the WorkMatters newsletters on Sep 30, 2022. This is part two in a 3-part series on complexity investing. Part one explored the changing nature of risk…Complexity Investing3 min readComplexity Investing3 min read
Published in WorkMatters·Dec 15, 2022Rethinking Risk: Ergodicity, Complex Adaptive Systems, and Power LawsEach week: three ideas for building better organizations. This week: three ideas to explain why this requires that we rethink risk. Originally published in the WorkMatters newsletter on Aug 19, 2022. I’ve been reading and re-reading a whitepaper from NZS Capital on Complexity Investing. It’s very good. …Complexity3 min readComplexity3 min read
Published in WorkMatters·Dec 5, 2022The Promise of Web3: From Win-Win to Zero-Sum and Back AgainEach week I share three ideas to help you build better organizations. This week, those ideas are all about Web3 and the promise thereof. Originally published in the WorkMatters newsletter on Aug 12, 2022. I’ve been reading some of Chris Dixon’s writings on decentralization and Web3. …Web 32 min readWeb 32 min read
