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Apr 10, 2020

Data Analytics: Blindsight, Hindsight, Insights, and Foresight

[Week 14, 2021] This week: how different types of data enables different types of analysis.

Andreas Holmer

Jun 22, 2021

🧠 Self-Governance requires a fundamental rethink, Part 1/2

[Week 21, 2024] Why self-governance is the biggest obstacle on the path to self-organization.

Andreas Holmer

Aug 19

💫 Change your thinking, change the world

[Week 14, 2024] In search of a new mental model of organizational design and development.

Andreas Holmer

Jun 30

Hands-On Leadership, Achievement Paradox, Budgetary Control

[Week 39, 2023] Why executives needs hands-on experience, and other insights.

Andreas Holmer

Dec 20, 2023

Viral Coefficient, Job Goals, and Open Book Management

[Week 41, 2023] Why your job is not your job, and other insights.

Andreas Holmer

Jan 2

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🥧 Leverage strengths to create value for key stakeholders

[Week 33, 2024] Should companies be run for profit or purpose? Alex Edmans’ book Grow the Pie provides the answer.

Andreas Holmer

Nov 10

🗂️ Shared Purpose Separates Autonomy from Independence

[Week 32, 2024] How and why to afford teams increasing levels of autonomy and freedom

Andreas Holmer

Nov 6

🦹🏻‍♀️ Use PLCX to Supercharge Your Continuous Improvement Efforts

[Week 31, 2024] The conclusion to an 8-part introduction to Product-Led Customer Experience (PLCX) design.

Andreas Holmer

Oct 28

📊 A Brief Introduction to Cohort Analytics in PLCX

[Week 30, 2024] How and why cohort charts can help you build your product’s growth engine.

Andreas Holmer

Oct 21

🛠️ Build your product’s growth engine with PLCX

[Week 29, 2024] How Product-Led Customer Experience (PLCX) can inform the first version of new products.

Andreas Holmer

Oct 13

🤩 PLCX Canvas, Part 4: How Might We (HMW) and Solutions

[Week 28, 2024] How to solve customer needs and your product’s growth engine

Andreas Holmer

Oct 7

🚀 Self-organization is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed

[Week 18, 2024] Dispelling the myth that self-organization doesn’t not work.

Andreas Holmer

Oct 5

🧭 PLCX Canvas, Part 3: Key Performance Indicators

[Week 27, 2024] How and why five KPIs helps you define your product’s growth engine.

Andreas Holmer

Sep 30

💞 PLCX Canvas, Part 2: The PLG Flywheel

[Week 26, 2024] How and why PLCX incorporates the PLG Flywheel.

Andreas Holmer

Sep 25

🎯 PLCX Canvas, Part 1: Ideal Customer Profiles

[Week 25, 2024] How and why ICPs can help us create Product-Led Customer Experiences.

Andreas Holmer

Sep 15

⚙️ Design better products with Product-Led Customer Experience

[Week 22, 2024] Introducing PLCX — a new product design framework build atop Product-Led Growth (PLG)

Andreas Holmer

Sep 8

🔗 Self-Governance Requires Deep Economic Engagement

[Week 35, 2024] How and why economic engagement plays a crucial role in achieving self-governance.

Andreas Holmer

Sep 2

🧠 Self-Governance requires a fundamental rethink, Part 2/2

[Week 22, 2024] How and why decentralized financial authority paves the way for self-governance.

Andreas Holmer

Aug 25

📝 Clear writing leads to clear thinking

[Week 20, 2024] Writing is not only a means of communication. It also allows us to practice reasoning.

Andreas Holmer

Aug 12

🧅 Self-organization contains multitudes

[Week 18, 2024] On the differences between self-management, self-direction, and self-governance.

Andreas Holmer

Aug 4

✊🏻 There are five levels of organizational autonomy

[Week 17, 2024] The path from control to alignment runs through 5 levels of autonomy.

Andreas Holmer

Jul 31

🗺️ The future of management is less about control and all about alignment

[Week 16, 2024] How and why management practices must adapt to changing cirumstances.

Andreas Holmer

Jul 23

👬 The ideal management span varies within organizations

[Week 15, 2024] The ideal number of direct reports per manager varies depending on these two factors.

Andreas Holmer

Jul 14

🏗️ There is no such thing as an ideal management span

[Week 14, 2024] Your management span is a product of your innovation need and talent density.

Andreas Holmer

Jul 11

📈 Small but consistent actions generate surprising results

[Week 12, 2024] The path to 300 and what’s next for WorkMatters.

Andreas Holmer

Jun 23

Scale Economies, Consistent Effort, and the Nature of Accounting

Successful organizations do three things: they create more value than they capture, they optimize for personal fulfillment, and they remain…

Andreas Holmer

Jun 17

Don’t (Always) Listen to Customers, Control Your Schedule, and Break Down Information Silos

[Week 10, 2024] Ideas on strategic optionality, the nature of knowledge work, and the problem of information silos.

Andreas Holmer

Jun 9

Superlinear Thinking, Reading Habits, and Customer Centricity

[Week 9, 2024] Ideas on nonlinear returns, the importance of developing a reading habit, and the connection between purpose and customer…

Andreas Holmer

Jun 2

Dark Software, Life Focus, and Economic Engagement

[Week 8, 2024] Ideas on a new SaaS business model, why to shift one’s focus in life, and the organizational benefits of economic…

Andreas Holmer

May 26

Ideas to shape the future of work and organization

Lessons from Netflix: Treat People Like Adults, Build Teams not Families, and Be a Great Place to…

Data Analytics: Blindsight, Hindsight, Insights, and Foresight

🧠 Self-Governance requires a fundamental rethink, Part 1/2

💫 Change your thinking, change the world

Hands-On Leadership, Achievement Paradox, Budgetary Control

Viral Coefficient, Job Goals, and Open Book Management

🥧 Leverage strengths to create value for key stakeholders

🗂️ Shared Purpose Separates Autonomy from Independence

🦹🏻‍♀️ Use PLCX to Supercharge Your Continuous Improvement Efforts

📊 A Brief Introduction to Cohort Analytics in PLCX

🛠️ Build your product’s growth engine with PLCX

🤩 PLCX Canvas, Part 4: How Might We (HMW) and Solutions

🚀 Self-organization is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed

🧭 PLCX Canvas, Part 3: Key Performance Indicators

💞 PLCX Canvas, Part 2: The PLG Flywheel

🎯 PLCX Canvas, Part 1: Ideal Customer Profiles

⚙️ Design better products with Product-Led Customer Experience

🔗 Self-Governance Requires Deep Economic Engagement

🧠 Self-Governance requires a fundamental rethink, Part 2/2

📝 Clear writing leads to clear thinking

🧅 Self-organization contains multitudes

✊🏻 There are five levels of organizational autonomy

🗺️ The future of management is less about control and all about alignment

👬 The ideal management span varies within organizations

🏗️ There is no such thing as an ideal management span

📈 Small but consistent actions generate surprising results

Scale Economies, Consistent Effort, and the Nature of Accounting

Don’t (Always) Listen to Customers, Control Your Schedule, and Break Down Information Silos

Superlinear Thinking, Reading Habits, and Customer Centricity

Dark Software, Life Focus, and Economic Engagement