Coming next: 10B (board reframe: from pilot success → reterritorialization funding; why boards accidentally buy churn) and 10C (playbook: Two-Speed Innovation Plan—Line-of-Flight charter + stabilization backlog + repair/rollback discipline).
#Governance #OrgDesign #SystemsThinking

OKRs for AI Agents: Congratulations, You’ve Rebuilt Management Why “agent autonomy” won’t kill bureaucracy — it will just rebuild it in JSON, evals, and ruthless feedback loops.

We didn’t kill management with AI agents. We rebuilt it in JSON, evals, retries, and orchestration graphs.
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#AgenticAI #LLMOps #AIOps #WorkflowDesign #OrgDesign

Tech moves fast. What matters is whether your organization can move with it.
Invest in mindset + enablement so teams lead adoption instead of fearing it.

Full episode vist.ly/4ttrb

#EngineeringLeadership #ProductLeadership #OrgDesign #CTO

The Arch’s Mandate: Replacing Informal Management With Designed Governance 🧩
Informal management feels fast at first but creates invisible bottlenecks over time. Governance architecture replaces ad‑hoc decisions with clear paths, roles, and rules.
#Governance #OrgDesign #Leadership #SVA

“Lead special projects and achieve outcomes.” The outcomes will be… outcomes. If that sentence passes review, bigger problems exist. #Hiring #Leadership #OrgDesign

This week’s episode is on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app : roastthepost.substack.com/p/ep-007-cul...

“Projects with outcomes” sounds fine — until no one can define the outcomes. Ambiguity doesn’t disappear once you’re hired. #Hiring #Leadership #OrgDesign

This week’s episode is on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app : roastthepost.substack.com/p/ep-007-cul...

Embedded coaches can be powerful — but only if accountability is clear.

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#OrgDesign #Leadership

For culture and coaching roles, the org chart matters more than the title.
This job ad skipped it entirely.

Get it on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app : roastthepost.substack.com/p/ep-007-cul...

#OrgDesign #Hiring

The Architect’s Mandate: Exposing Structural Execution Drag 🚧
Structural execution drag is the hidden tax on strategy — the gap between what leadership narrates and what the organization can execute. Naming it is the first step to eliminating it.
#Leadership #StrategyExecution #OrgDesign #SVA

Every “culture coach” came from HR. Every one reports into HR. That reframes the entire role.

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#HR #OrgDesign #Hiring

The Architect’s Mandate: When leadership’s intent stays verbal, not architectural, clarity collapses. Great leaders build structure, not dependency. Architect your vision. #Leadership #Strategy #Execution #OrgDesign

If a role is evergreen, slow down. Refine it. Test it. Iterate. Evergreen ≠ unfinished.

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#Hiring #OrgDesign #Recruitment

#2: The ROI of Understanding Our Field Notes

New issue of The Clearing is up, and it's all about why UX teams get cut first, and what it'll actually take to change that pattern.

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#UXDesign #equitabl #UXStrategy #OrgDesign #ProductEvals

If we want to achieve lasting Productivity, we must stop rearranging the Org Chart and start transforming the Work itself ! 🚨 Stop shuffling the org chart and expecting productivity to magically improve. 📊 43% of surveyed executives cite productivity growth as their top priority, yet a staggering two-thirds admit their org...

If we want to achieve lasting #Productivity, we must stop rearranging the Org Chart and start transforming the Work itself! www.linkedin.com/pulse/we-wan... #OrgDesign #JobDesign #WorkDesign #HR #HCM #HRM #HumanResources #PeopleAnalytics #WorkforceAnalytics

Coming next: 8B (board reframe: incident handling → event metabolism, incl. “event burial rate”) and 8C (playbook: Event Ledger + Reopen→Redesign→Re-stabilize; metrics: throughput vs burial, time-to-re-stabilize).
#DRT #AI #Governance #OrgDesign

Why your best people are leaving (and what HR must do about it) Leading organizations like Bayer & Citibank have realized that traditional hierarchies “create friction in a knowledge economy that demands speed and judgment”, argues Alex McCann, an entrepreneur on ...

Why your best people are leaving (and what #HR must do about it) www.unleash.ai/employee-exp... #HCM #HRM #HumanResources #OrgDesign #JobDesign #retention #engagement #e4s #OrgDev

The Squeezed Middle: Why Organisations Must Rethink the Role of Middle Management For years, we’ve talked about visionary leaders at the top and empowered teams at the frontline. But in between sits a group that quietly determines whether strategy succeeds or fails: middle managers...

The Squeezed Middle: Why Organisations Must Rethink the Role of Middle #Management www.linkedin.com/pulse/squeez... @mervyndinnen.bsky.social #OrgDev #OrgDesign #JobDesign #leadership

Week 7 includes: 7A (concept), 7B (board reframe: from change mgmt → territory work), 7C (5-step Territory Design Sprint + identity-threat test; ship 1 ritual + 1 interface constraint).
#AI #DigitalTransformation #Governance #OrgDesign #CoIntelligence

Middle management roles are fading fast! 📉 Organizations are flattening, and teams are directly facing the market. Adapt or be left behind! #FutureOfWork #OrgDesign

How AI Enables Successful HR Operating Models Written by Dave Ulrich, Rensis Likert Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan, Partner, The RBL Group (dou@umich.edu), Norm Smallwood, Partner, The RBL Group (nsmallwood@rbl.

How #AI Enables Successful #HR Operating Models www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-ai... #HCM #HRM #HumanResources #OrgDesign

Work That Exists Only Because Other Work Exists By Bradley Schagrin

Work That Exists Only Because Other Work Exists

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#WorkAboutWork

#Leadership

#OrgDesign

#SystemsThinkin

Why Management Never Had Its Humboldt Yet Most contemporary management conversations begin with symptoms. Leaders speak of transformation fatigue, innovation theatre, declining engagement, brittle supply chains, slow decision-making, and a gr...

Management is stuck in a 17th-century mindset while the world has moved on. What if the reason so many orgs fail isn’t execution but the very logic we use to understand them? #Leadership #OrgDesign #SystemsThinking

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AI pilots are easy. Scaling isn’t.

Check your org’s readiness with the free self-assessment. You will get your results across 5 dimensions and also more details in a PDF by email 👇

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#AI #Scaling #OrgDesign

The Cost of Role Confusion: Why One Person Can't Own Two Functions | Alex Hunter Why asking one person to own two fundamentally different functions is a false economy that damages consistency, kills accountability, and burns out your best people.

New Blog Post: alexhunter.net/blog/blurred...

#FutureOfWork #WorkCulture #Leadership #Management #StartupLife #Founders #SaaS #BusinessStrategy #OrgDesign #Burnout

Polymorphic Organisations - Designing for Constant Change For decades, organisations have treated change as something that happens in stages. A restructure.

Polymorphic Organisations - Designing for Constant #Change www.linkedin.com/pulse/polymo... @mervyndinnen.bsky.social @perrytimms.bsky.social #OrgDesign #HR #HCM #HRM #HumanResources

Key Highlights Day 1: Aligning People, Culture, and Work Design with Real Business Demands Learn why alignment breaks at execution and how leaders are addressing skills, capacity, mobility, trust, and work design under real business pressure.

HR Hacking People and #Culture Summit: Key Highlights Day 1: Aligning People, Culture, and Work Design with Real Business Demands www.linkedin.com/pulse/key-hi... #HR #HCM #HRM #HumanResources #OrgDev #OrgDesign #JobDesign

▪️Fix the obstructions: policy islands, interface bypasses, metric pressure, decision-right ambiguity, vendor boundary gaps.
▪️Embed constraints in interfaces, data use, decision rules, escalations, audit trails.
#OrgDesign #SystemsThinking

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If you like #orgdesign conversations
And escaping tired work tropes
If you’re not into buzzwords
But you still like how #learning works
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Signals of a non-commuting seam: green metrics/red reality, “the model said…” accountability fog, automation amplifies contradiction.
Common flips: definition, value premise, decision rights, time scale.
#SystemsThinking #OrgDesign

What AI actually changes about work and what it doesn’t Directionally Correct Newsletter, The #1 People Analytics Substack

What #AI actually changes about work and what it doesn’t directionallycorrectnews.substack.com/p/what-ai-ac... #FutureofWork #JobDesign #OrgDesign #HR #HCM #HRM #HumanResources