# Coordination Headwind - How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds

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## What Jamie wrote

Wow, this is a great thought piece with some incredibly valuable organizational principles.

> The coordination headwind is inexorable. It increases super-linearly as: 
> 1. Uncertainty increases 
> 2. Project teams get larger and more spread out 
> 3. A more bottoms up culture 

There is a lot to take away from this:

- The spectrum of bottom-up and top-down is a reasonable way to think of most orgs (slide 18)
- The whole thing on agent-based models to look at how work changes with scale is brilliant (slide 32)
- The mediator cost and the exponential increase with levels is very true (slide 98)
- I love the "roof shot" versus "moon shot". Perfect way to think about agile iterations but in many parts of an organization (slide 154), and then parallelizing them (slide 164). 
- The point of having a well crafted strategy for that parallel approach is key (slide 165)

Also, I 🤯 how this deck is ✏️ with emojis as the 💁! 👏👏👏

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