What does tech management at Slack, HubSpot, Netflix, Etsy, Shopify, InVision, and more have in common? A lot, apparently!
Category: Management/Collaboration/Org Design
Digital Isn’t Software, It’s A Mindset
Aaron Dignan talks through how companies can have the right mindset to thrive in the future: It’s good to have a purpose, a process to support it, the right people, and (most importantly) these need to be combined to make products that serve a community larger than any employee or organization.
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Watch 53 min video, published by 99U
Org Physics: The Three Faces Of Every Company
Every organization has three kinds of power, and three forms of leadership, three structures. This is not a menu. They are part of organizational physics — universal laws that apply to every organization, large or small, old or new, for profit or social.
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Written by Niels Pflaeging, published on Medium
Overcoming The 5 Dysfunctions Of A Team
Effective teamwork ultimately comes down to practicing a small set of principles (not a sophisticated theory) over a long period of time with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence.
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Written for The Mission, published on Medium
Why Company Culture Is Crucial
Dharmesh Shah, co-founder and CTO at the marketing and sales software firm HubSpot, distills the company’s 128-slide presentation on company culture down to its essence, describing it as a business’s “operating system” that lets people do their best work. Shah says entrepreneurs must create a company culture they love, because one will eventually emerge no matter what.
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Reinventing Management
Building organizations that are more adaptable, innovative and engaging requires deep innovation of the technology of human accomplishment. Gary Hamel presents the case for reinventing management.
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The Management Framework that Propelled LinkedIn to a $20 Billion Company
Jeff Weiner led LinkedIn through a blockbuster IPO to a current market capitalization of over $20 billion. After the IPO, he’s come out the other side with several incredible management lessons involving the focus on values, compassion, and leadership around unified goals. While most companies dismiss these concepts easily as somehow stale or separate from the work they need to get done day to day, Weiner has implemented them as cornerstones of his leadership philosophy and management model.
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Written for and published by First Round Review
Something Weird Happens To Companies When They Hit 150 People
There is a cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships. This limit has suggested to be 150 and is known as “Dunbar’s Number” named after the British anthropologist Robin Dunbar. Dunbar’s research implies that for a group to sustain itself at the size of 150 requires significantly more effort that must be spent on the core socialization to keep the group functioning.
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Written by Kevin J. Delaney, published on Quartz
What I Hear When You Tell Me Your Company Doesn’t Do Meetings
Getting rid of meetings is not a management revolution. Meetings are discussions between colleagues about the work to be done and the reasons for doing it . They are important. But just because they’re important doesn’t mean they organize themselves.
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Written by Jonathan Nightingale, published on Medium
Tough Lessons Learned on Giving and Receiving Feedback
In this article outlines why feedback is not only needed as a vital process in a company but a true act of kindness towards team members. It shares some of the methods Leo Widrich, co-founder of Buffer, learned for giving and receiving feedback.
BUILDING STRONG ORGANIZATIONS 