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Working Backwards: Separable, Single Threaded Teams and Herbert Simon

Working Backwards by Colin Bryar and Bill Carr describes in detail the inner workings of Amazon, including the development of its best practices over a nearly 3-decade history. The chapter Organizing: Separable, Single-Threaded Leadership quickly jumped out at me. Separable teams? Where had I heard that idea before? It didn’

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Org Design, Part 1: Nearly decomposable systems, with Serendipity & Slack

PART 1.“Organizations are systems of behavior designed to enable humans to accomplish their goals” –Herb Simon, The Shape of AutomationThe “buzziness” of 50-100 The period of organizational growth from 50 to 100 people can be a chaotic time. According to physicist Geoffrey West, at this stage [A] the org