Holacracy Is Not What You Think

A Response to Steve Denning’s “Making Sense of Zappos and Holacracy”

The 10x Workshop

What I learned designing and running a week-long product innovation workshop 

Platform Thinking: The Future of Work

Building businesses in the age of the internet

Every business is an engine. It needs to do a certain set of things repeatedly to create value. If you haven’t figured out that set of repeated operations, you…

Carl Zimmer on writing: “Don’t make a ship in a bottle”

Talking about complex ideas is tough. But for…

The Coming Artistic Revolution

And its courageous, $40B/yr Los Angeles investor

The Future of Work: A Manifesto

The future of work starts right here, right now.

unmanaging change

working faster by getting smaller and letting go

Leadership in Holacracy

I am frequently asked: "What does leadership look like in Holacracy?" To answer that question it is necessary to…

For Whom the Kale Tolls

Here’s a radical idea: let’s talk about gentrification, without saying the…

Pairing: a better way to lead strategy projects

Why the project lead often sucks at their job

If you lead projects at an agency or consultancy, there’s three things to worry about (1) finding the right answer, (2) low client-anxiety, (3)…