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“This is not a story about a bicycle company. This is a story about what happens to leaders, in…#
“This is not a story about a bicycle company. This is a story about what happens to leaders, in any industry, who let the network around them collapse into a single tight cluster of agreement.”
https://mikefisher.substack.com/p/the-network-you-cant-see
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“De-anthropomorphizing language talks about computer systems in terms of their functionality (w…#
“De-anthropomorphizing language talks about computer systems in terms of their functionality (what people build and/or use them to do), assigns agency to people using systems and not systems, and avoids aggrandizing metaphors about cognition.”
https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/how-to-talk-about-ai-without-adding-to-the/
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“The APA’s research is clear about what creates psychological safety: opportunities to give a…#
“The APA’s research is clear about what creates psychological safety: opportunities to give and receive honest feedback, well-trained managers, meaningful employee involvement in decision-making and goal-setting, respect for time off, and genuine acknowledgment of mental health as a workplace issue.”
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“No matter how fast you can build something, maintaining it is still an ongoing cost.” <http…#
“No matter how fast you can build something, maintaining it is still an ongoing cost.”
https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/productivity
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Anyone have info on how this has been going? ““At Block, we’re questioning the underlying …#
Anyone have info on how this has been going?
““At Block, we’re questioning the underlying assumption: that organizations have to be hierarchically organized with humans as the coordination mechanism. Instead, we intend to replace what the hierarchy does,” Dorsey and Botha wrote.”
https://www.pymnts.com/personnel/2026/block-ceo-envisions-ai-unseating-middle-managers/
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“HBR’s prescription amounts to building a new layer of human checking around AI output, which…#
“HBR’s prescription amounts to building a new layer of human checking around AI output, which undermines the efficiency argument that justified adoption in the first place.”
https://thenextweb.com/news/ai-workslop-knowledge-decay-harvard-business-review-productivity
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“The only way to build an organization that can live without you is to devolve decision-making …#
“The only way to build an organization that can live without you is to devolve decision-making — and the only way to do that is to create the conditions to make devolved decision-making a safe norm.”
https://werd.io/to-build-resilient-organizations-you-need-to-empower-your-team-to-make-decisions/