Essays on
Organisations & Work
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Modern companies, dumb organizations?
Updating a few mental models in the past month, and how to view work in the modern context is one of them. Views are personal, and a combination of what…
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Organizations as nervous systems, and why middle managers matter
One of the major learnings I had working in the founder’s office role was to add another lens for how to view organizations: through the lens of nervous systems. Not…
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Fun Fridays are missing poker
Petition to every HR person running Fun Fridays, especially at startups: add poker to the list. What prompted me to write this post was a recent discussion with a few…
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Nuance Doesn’t Coordinate Well…
Something I have been thinking a lot about for the last few months are systems at scale. Pick up any system – education, healthcare, government, law, administration, large corporations, anything…
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The complexity of human negotiations
So every once in a while, I like to go through my writings from previous years. And more often than not, I end up cringing at what I wrote. Recently…