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Andreas Holmer

Apr 10, 2020

Basecamp’s Hill Charts: Emergent Scope, Time to Clarity, and Proximal Development

[Week 13, 2022] What a simple visualization can teach us about working with uncertainty.

Andreas Holmer

Jun 20

Personal Productivity, vol 1: Getting Things Done, Pomodoro, and Atomic Habits

[Week 45, 2020] How do manage to get your work done each and every day? This week: three methods to do just that.

Andreas Holmer

Jan 28, 2021

Why We Sleep: Epidemic Proportions, Hidden Superpowers, and Public Education

[Week 21, 2020] Why do we sleep? And how does sleep affect work? This week: those answers and more.

Andreas Holmer

Aug 13, 2020

Farsighted Decision-Making: Mapping, Predicting, and Deciding

[Week 45, 2018] This week: three ideas for better decision-making curtesy of Steven Johnson’s Farsighted.

Andreas Holmer

Dec 12, 2019

The Source Principle: Provenance, Collaboration, and Succession

[Week 1, 2020] According to Peter Koenig, all initiatives can be traced back to a single source/founder able to visualize what’s possible.

Andreas Holmer

Apr 10, 2020

Hi, I’m Andreas. WorkMatters is my weekly newsletter about the future of work. I’ve been writing it since 2019 and this is the public archive. You’ll find more content on my website:

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Estimating Work: the Coastline Paradox, Orders of Approximation, and Agile Scoping

[Week 14, 2022] What can map making teach us about estimating Agile software projects.

Andreas Holmer

Jun 27

The Dunning-Kruger Effect: Climbing Mount Stupid, Navigating the Valley of Despair, and Ascending…

[Week 12, 2022] How and why self-awareness can protect us from bouts of overconfidence.

Andreas Holmer

Jun 13

DAOs: Managed by Members, Governed by Code and United by Purpose

[Week 11, 2022] DAOs are decentralized, autonomous and organizations. But that’s not why they’re interesting…

Andreas Holmer

Jun 6

Managing Variety: Customer Needs, Product Lines, and Management Layers

[Week 10, 2022] Your organizations ability to manage variety must match that of your environment.

Andreas Holmer

May 31

Perspectives on Self-Organization: Personal Freedom, Management Control and Stakeholder Relations

[Week 9, 2022] There are multiple perspectives to consider when transitioning towards self-management.

Andreas Holmer

May 23

Role-Based Hiring: Build Positions, Prioritize Roles, Measure Trust

[Week 8, 2022] How to hire talent in a role-based organization.

Andreas Holmer

May 16

The Onliness Statement: Differentiation, Rational, and Formula

[Week 7, 2021] Use this simple technique to differentiate your product or service.

Andreas Holmer

May 8

Viable Systems Model (VSM): Environment, Operations, and Metasystems

[Week 6, 2022] How Stafford Beer’s VSM can help balance organizational effectiveness and control.

Andreas Holmer

May 1

Web 1–2–3: Decentralized, Consolidated, and Democratized

[Week 5, 2022] At its core, Web3 is all about democratization of data and ownership.

Andreas Holmer

Apr 26

Reading Notes VI: Hoverstadt on Supertankers, Senge on Ocean Liners, and Ruimin on Ship…

[Week 4, 2022] Three takes on the old organization-is-an-oil-tanker analogy.

Andreas Holmer

Apr 17

Complexity Rising: Standardizing Ford, Divisionalizing GM, and Decentralizing Toyota

[Week 3, 2022] Lessons from Ford, GM, and Toyota on how organizations can deal with complexity.

Andreas Holmer

Apr 11

Schedule It or It Won’t Get Done: Inspiration, Process, and Use Case

[Week 2, 2022] A bit of light-weight process makes sure WorkMatters is published out on time, evert time.

Andreas Holmer

Apr 4

InnerSource: Closed to Most, Open to All, Open to Few

[Week 1, 2022] How and why InnerSource is changing the way organizations share and distributes organizations.

Andreas Holmer

Mar 27

Year-in-Review (2021): Data Analytics, Transaction Costs, and Innovative Cultures

Each week: three ideas on the future of work. This week: the three most liked, read, and referenced WorkMatters stories from 2021…

Andreas Holmer

Mar 20

Reading Notes V: Smith on Becoming, McGregor on Attribution, and Deming on Proportions

[Week 52, 2019] How do you affect organizational change? According to McKinsey, there are three steps.

Andreas Holmer

Mar 14

Management Models: Domains, Principles, and Practices

[Week 50, 2021] Your business model describes what you do. Your management model describes how you do it.

Andreas Holmer

Feb 28

Management Span: Conventional Wisdom, Divergent Practice, and Structure-Market Fit

[Week 49, 2021] How many direct reports should a manager have? It depends.

Andreas Holmer

Feb 22

Silicon Valley: Conglomerates, Fragmentation, and Ecosystems

[Week 48, 2021] From centralized staff functions to venture capital and startup ecosystems.

Andreas Holmer

Feb 14

Haier’s WWVA: Value-Added Statements, Lifetime Customers, and Ecosystem Growth

[Week 47, 2021] How Haier uses its Win-Win Value Added Statement to build customer centric organizational cultures.

Andreas Holmer

Feb 6

Reading Notes IV: Deming on Performance, Newport on Busyness, and Hubbard on Fuzziness

[Week 46, 2021] How do we use data to measure performance? This week: insights from Edward Deming, Cal Newport, and Douglas Hubbard.

Andreas Holmer

Jan 30

Role-Based Organizations: More Agility, More Resilience, and More Growth

[Week 45, 2021] Role-based organizations enjoy a number of benefits compared to their position-based counterparts.

Andreas Holmer

Jan 24

Org. LEGO: Responsibilities, Roles, and Positions

[Week 44, 2021] A simple analogy to help us think about the building blocks that we use when designing organizations.

Andreas Holmer

Jan 17

Value Creation: Makers, Managers, and Mechanics

[Week 43, 2021] How do you create value in your organization? There are three options to choose from.

Andreas Holmer

Jan 9

Reading Notes III: Horowitz on Bad Ideas, Ives on Fragile Ideas, Catmull on Ugly Ideas

[Week 42, 2021] Innovation is hard. This week: three quotes on how to nurture new ideas.

Andreas Holmer

Jan 4

Each week, three ideas on the future of work

Customer Experience: Systems, Experiments, and Agility

Basecamp’s Hill Charts: Emergent Scope, Time to Clarity, and Proximal Development

Personal Productivity, vol 1: Getting Things Done, Pomodoro, and Atomic Habits

Why We Sleep: Epidemic Proportions, Hidden Superpowers, and Public Education

Farsighted Decision-Making: Mapping, Predicting, and Deciding

The Source Principle: Provenance, Collaboration, and Succession

Estimating Work: the Coastline Paradox, Orders of Approximation, and Agile Scoping

The Dunning-Kruger Effect: Climbing Mount Stupid, Navigating the Valley of Despair, and Ascending…

DAOs: Managed by Members, Governed by Code and United by Purpose

Managing Variety: Customer Needs, Product Lines, and Management Layers

Perspectives on Self-Organization: Personal Freedom, Management Control and Stakeholder Relations

Role-Based Hiring: Build Positions, Prioritize Roles, Measure Trust

The Onliness Statement: Differentiation, Rational, and Formula

Viable Systems Model (VSM): Environment, Operations, and Metasystems

Web 1–2–3: Decentralized, Consolidated, and Democratized

Reading Notes VI: Hoverstadt on Supertankers, Senge on Ocean Liners, and Ruimin on Ship…

Complexity Rising: Standardizing Ford, Divisionalizing GM, and Decentralizing Toyota

Schedule It or It Won’t Get Done: Inspiration, Process, and Use Case

InnerSource: Closed to Most, Open to All, Open to Few

Year-in-Review (2021): Data Analytics, Transaction Costs, and Innovative Cultures

Reading Notes V: Smith on Becoming, McGregor on Attribution, and Deming on Proportions

Management Models: Domains, Principles, and Practices

Management Span: Conventional Wisdom, Divergent Practice, and Structure-Market Fit

Silicon Valley: Conglomerates, Fragmentation, and Ecosystems

Haier’s WWVA: Value-Added Statements, Lifetime Customers, and Ecosystem Growth

Reading Notes IV: Deming on Performance, Newport on Busyness, and Hubbard on Fuzziness

Role-Based Organizations: More Agility, More Resilience, and More Growth

Org. LEGO: Responsibilities, Roles, and Positions

Value Creation: Makers, Managers, and Mechanics

Reading Notes III: Horowitz on Bad Ideas, Ives on Fragile Ideas, Catmull on Ugly Ideas