Each week: three ideas for how to build better organizations. This week: three ideas that help introduce MAQE’s management model. Your business model explains what you do and your management model explains how you do it. At MAQE, we’re currently working to document our version of the latter (we call…

Each week: three ideas for better organization. This week: three takeaways from the Netflix culture deck. It’s been 13 years since Netflix released its famous Culture Deck. I’ve revisited it many times since, but I’ve never actually written about it*. So here we go; three of my favorite ideas from…

Each week: three ideas for how to build better organizations. This week: three ideas on team building and evolution. (Originally published in the WorkMatters newsletter on May 6, 2022).

Each week: three ideas on the future of work and organization. This week: three ideas for better time management. I’ll be honest. At times it’s hard to balance time and attention between family, work, and writing on the one hand, with health and well-being on the other. It’s all important…

Each week: three ideas to help us build better organizations. This week: three insights from the trenches of organizational transformation. Bill Andersson is the CEO of Roche Pharmaceuticals. For the past five years, he’s been working to transform the pharma giant into a more empowering and entrepreneurial organization. He recently…

Each week: three ideas to help us build better organizations. This week: three ideas on organizational (re)structuring. In The Fractal Organization, author Patrick Hoverstadt provides a simple framework with which to structure organizations. Let’s dig in. 1. Complexity Restructuring should help the organization better manage complexity. Restructuring is difficult, time-consuming, and prone…

Each week: three ideas to help us create better organizations. This week: three ideas on estimation and scoping. (This story was first published in the WorkMatters newsletter on April 8, 2022). British polymath Lewis Fry Richardson made a surprising discovery in 1950: the larger the unit of measurement, the smaller…

Each week: three ideas to help up create better organizations. This week: three ideas to help us work with uncertainty. (Originally published in the WorkMatters newsletter in April 2022). “Every piece of work has two phases”, writes Ryan Singer in Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that…

Each week: three ideas to help us build better organizations. This week: three ideas on how a bit of self-awareness can protect us from bouts of over-confidence. I’ve been reading Adam Grant’s book Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know. It’s an entertaining read and I’ve particularly…