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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.
Andreas Holmer
Apr 15
Personal Productivity, vol. 3: Locus of Control, Circle of Influence, Zone of Adaptation
Personal Productivity, vol. 3: Locus of Control, Circle of Influence, Zone of Adaptation
[Week 53, 2020] Is life something you can control? The answer to that questions says a lot about how effective you are.
Andreas Holmer
Mar 22, 2021
Product-Led Growth: Purchasing Power, Personal Needs, and Growth Models
Product-Led Growth: Purchasing Power, Personal Needs, and Growth Models
[Week 26, 2020] What is Product-Led Growth? This week, we look at the go-to-market strategy that is taking the digital world by storm.
Andreas Holmer
Sep 15, 2020
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.
Andreas Holmer
Oct 14, 2021
Towards Agility: Loosen Controls, Empower Individuals, and Think Longterm
Towards Agility: Loosen Controls, Empower Individuals, and Think Longterm
[Week 13, 2020] There’s no one path towards greater business agility. There’s at least three.
Andreas Holmer
Jun 15, 2020
🧠 Self-Governance requires a fundamental rethink, Part 1/2
🧠 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
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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📝 Clear writing leads to clear thinking
📝 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
🧅 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
✊🏻 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
🗺️ 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
👬 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
🏗️ 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
💫 Change your thinking, change the world
💫 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
📈 Small but consistent actions generate surprising results
📈 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
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
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
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
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
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.
Andreas Holmer
May 19
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.
Andreas Holmer
May 12
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.
Andreas Holmer
May 8
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.
Andreas Holmer
Apr 29
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
Andreas Holmer
Apr 22
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.
Andreas Holmer
Apr 8
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.
Andreas Holmer
Mar 25
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.
Andreas Holmer
Mar 18
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.
Andreas Holmer
Mar 10
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.
Andreas Holmer
Mar 3
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.
Andreas Holmer
Feb 27
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.
Andreas Holmer
Feb 19
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