Over the course of my career, I’ve been on more task forces than I can count, and for a long time, I thought they were one of the better ideas organizations had come up with….
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What Should Work Look Like Next?
People don’t know what work should look like next, but everyone has a slide deck about it. Here are a few models worth thinking about, some real, some hypothetical, and some slightly absurd. — Maximize…
More Training
When someone isn’t performing the way an organization expects, the first instinct is usually development. More training. A new course. A certification. A coach. Sometimes that’s exactly right. But sometimes the person already knows how…
Before You Redesign Work
Ferran Adrià shut down the best restaurant in the world so he could figure out what cooking actually was. Not how to make it better. What it fundamentally was, and what it was actually for….
What the Job Description Actually Describes
Job descriptions are written to fill a position. That sounds obvious, but it’s worth thinking about for a moment. The document exists to define a container: a set of responsibilities, a level, or a function….
Why Cities Fought Back
When planners began redesigning cities as machines, the logic seemed obvious. Efficiency, order, optimization: housing here, work there, traffic moving cleanly between them. It was the vision of architects like Le Corbusier, a city engineered…