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

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.
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Normative Ethics: Deontology, Utilitarianism, and Virtue Ethics

Normative Ethics: Deontology, Utilitarianism, and Virtue Ethics

[Week 30, 2020] What does philosophy have to do with organizational design? Quite a bit, as it turns out.
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Cynefin Framework, Part 2: Fixed, Enabling, and Governing Constraints

Cynefin Framework, Part 2: Fixed, Enabling, and Governing Constraints

[Week 18, 2020] How might we adapt and contextualize our decision-making? The week, we (again) look at the Cynefin framework for answers.
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Hands-On Leadership, Achievement Paradox, Budgetary Control

Hands-On Leadership, Achievement Paradox, Budgetary Control

[Week 39, 2023] Why executives needs hands-on experience, and other insights.
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Viral Coefficient, Job Goals, and Open Book Management

Viral Coefficient, Job Goals, and Open Book Management

[Week 41, 2023] Why your job is not your job, and other insights.
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Market Fragmentation, the Five Factor Model, and Creative Control

Market Fragmentation, the Five Factor Model, and Creative Control

[Week 51, 2023] Why and when it might be a good idea for a manager to have 15+ direct reports, and other insights.
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Hi, I’m Andreas. WorkMatters is my weekly newsletter about the future of work and organization. I’ve been writing since 2018 and this is the public archive. For more, visit my website:
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Superlinear Thinking, Reading Habits, and Customer Centricity

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…
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Dark Software, Life Focus, and Economic Engagement

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…
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Andreas Holmer
NABC Propositions, Doing Your Best, and Stochastic Sampling

NABC Propositions, Doing Your Best, and Stochastic Sampling

[Week 7, 2024] Ideas on value prop design, what it means do to your best, and how to collect organizational insights.
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Category Creation, Listening to Win, and Knee-Jerk Management

Category Creation, Listening to Win, and Knee-Jerk Management

[Week 9, 2024] Business insights from the Knowledge Project podcast.
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Ringelmann Effect, AIDA Model, and How to Avoid Disruption, Part 5/5

Ringelmann Effect, AIDA Model, and How to Avoid Disruption, Part 5/5

[Week 5, 2024] How and why smaller team are more productive than bigger ones, and other insights.
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Manual Valuable Process, Habit Systems, and Avoid Disruption, Part ⅘

Manual Valuable Process, Habit Systems, and Avoid Disruption, Part ⅘

[Week 4, 2024] How and why you should processize before you productize, and other insights.
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6Ds of Exponentials, Adaptive Management, and Avoid Disruption, Part ⅗

6Ds of Exponentials, Adaptive Management, and Avoid Disruption, Part ⅗

[Week 3, 2024] How industries transform through six non-sequential steps, and other insights
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Willingness to Pay, The Lindy Effect, and Avoid Disruption, Part ⅖

Willingness to Pay, The Lindy Effect, and Avoid Disruption, Part ⅖

[Week 2, 2024] How and why price should figure into your segmentation strategy, and other insights.
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Nurture Innovation, Embrace Sales, and Avoid Disruption, Part ⅕

Nurture Innovation, Embrace Sales, and Avoid Disruption, Part ⅕

[Week 1, 2024] How and why to protect nascent ideas, and other insights.
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Feature Bloat, Minimalist Entrepreneurship, and Management Layers

Feature Bloat, Minimalist Entrepreneurship, and Management Layers

[Week 52, 2023] Why and how too many features can lead to disruption, and other insights.
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Market Fragmentation, the Five Factor Model, and Creative Control

Market Fragmentation, the Five Factor Model, and Creative Control

[Week 51, 2023] Why and when it might be a good idea for a manager to have 15+ direct reports, and other insights.
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Soft Skills, Multipreneurship, and Chaordic Systems

Soft Skills, Multipreneurship, and Chaordic Systems

[Week 50, 2023] How and why AI makes soft skills more important, and other insights.
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Seating Machines, Balanced Productivity, and Systemic Leadership

Seating Machines, Balanced Productivity, and Systemic Leadership

[Week 49, 2023] How and why to innovate in meaning rather than features, and other insights.
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Product Marketers, Intrinsic Motivation, and Transforming GEA

Product Marketers, Intrinsic Motivation, and Transforming GEA

[Week 48, 2023] Why Airbnb turned its Product Managers into Product Marketers, and other insights.
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Reframing Emergencies, Resting Smiles, and Agile Coaching

Reframing Emergencies, Resting Smiles, and Agile Coaching

[Week 47, 2023] How and why to turn emergencies into opportunities, and other insights.
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Disguised Marketplaces, Founder’s Path, and Progressive Decentralization

Disguised Marketplaces, Founder’s Path, and Progressive Decentralization

[Week 46, 2023] How and why to ease into decentralization, and other insights.
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Rethinking Research, Purposeful Reading, and Collective Meritocracy

Rethinking Research, Purposeful Reading, and Collective Meritocracy

[Week 44, 2023] How to uncover customer value by focusing on what rather than the how, and other insights.
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Differentiating Work, Helping Others, and Premature Scaling

Differentiating Work, Helping Others, and Premature Scaling

[Week 44, 2023] How and why to look beyond table stakes for future growth opportunities, and other insights.
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Calculated Risks, Towards Equanimity, and Management Span

Calculated Risks, Towards Equanimity, and Management Span

[Week 43, 2023] How and why risk is a kew driver of customer value, and other insights.
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Customer Focus, Age-Related Muscle Loss, and Turning Radius of Organizations

Customer Focus, Age-Related Muscle Loss, and Turning Radius of Organizations

[Week 42, 2023] How and why narrow customer focus enables meaningful engagement, and other insights.
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Customer Value, Team Fulfillment, and Financial Health

Customer Value, Team Fulfillment, and Financial Health

[Week 40, 2023] How MAQE defines and tracks long-term success.
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Find a superniche, Control your attention, and Stand for something

Find a superniche, Control your attention, and Stand for something

Successful organizations do three things: they create more value than they capture, they optimize for personal fulfillment, and they…
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Co-Create Value, Reclaim Time, and Reverse Conway

Co-Create Value, Reclaim Time, and Reverse Conway

[Week 37, 2023] Why does cooperation create more value than competition, and other insights.
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Ideal Customer Profiles, Next Actions, and Navigating Complexity

Ideal Customer Profiles, Next Actions, and Navigating Complexity

[Week 36, 2023] Why Walmart carries 60 times as many SKUs as Costco, and other insights.
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