Coordination Headwind - How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds

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)

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