When Leadership Became a Substitute for Structure · R2049 · Structural Reconstructions

https://ifabsthill.com/2026/06/26/when-leadership-became-a-substitute-for-structure-r2049-structural-reconstructions/

RE: https://mastodon.acm.org/@ACM/116754186942255994

"What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention." — Herbert A. Simon (1971)

in ‘Designing Organizations for an Information-Rich World’ #ObservableWork #organizationaldesign

The conference is full steam, and Zsófia Herendi and I will have our hands-on in 3 days. If business value and org design are topics that matter to you, join us at "From org chart to designed organization: making the invisible visible with business models and teams" hands-on lab!

Learn more here ➡️ https://2026.dddeurope.com/program/from-org-chart-to-designed-organization-making-the-invisible-visible-with-business-models-and-teams/

#DDDEurope #TeamTopologies #DomainDrivenDesign #OrganizationalDesign

One operator. Ten parallel operations. One day.

Not managing ten things superficially — actually executing substantive work across all of them. The kind of day that used to require a department.

Headcount was never what determined output. Judgment was. Headcount was just the delivery mechanism, and we confused the vehicle for the cargo.

https://www.paulwelty.com/the-headcount-lie/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#AI #FutureOfWork #Leadership #OrganizationalDesign #AIandWork

From the Leanpub Blog: The Leanpub Podcast 🎙 Feat. Org Topologies, Author of 10X ORG – Powered by Org Topologies: A Manager's Guide to Elevating Business Performance with People and AI

https://leanpub.com/blog/the-leanpub-podcast-feat-alexey-krivitsky-co-author-of-10x-org-a-managers-guide-to-elevating-business-performance-with-people-and-ai

#books #leanpublishing #selfpublishing #FutureOfWork #OrganizationalDesign #BusinessTransformation #Management #Leadership #TeamTopologies #LeanpubPodcast #DigitalTransformation

NEW! The Leanpub Podcast 🎙 Feat. Alexey Krivitsky, co-author of 10X ORG: A Manager's Guide to Elevating Business Performance with People and AI

https://youtu.be/HlOK0JZxBAM

#books #leanpublishing #selfpublishing #FutureOfWork #OrganizationalDesign #BusinessTransformation #Management #Leadership #TeamTopologies #LeanpubPodcast #DigitalTransformation

Surveys have shown that less than 2% of people one or two layers around you as a leader understand what the priorities are.

Julia Hoggett, the London Stock Exchange CEO, says she spends a third of her time constantly creating this clarity. When people feel responsible for an outcome, magic can happen.

Jana Werner wrote The Octopus Organization after interviewing 70 executives.

Find out what separates the adaptive ones from the rigid ones:
https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/116

#Leadership #OrganizationalDesign #TechLeadership #Management

There's a design decision that looks like resilience and acts like rot. You catch the error, return something that looks like success, and the system keeps running.

Nobody gets paged. The error rate stays flat. And the thing that should have happened just… didn't.

Most systems have more suppression than their owners realize. So do most organizations.

https://www.paulwelty.com/silence-by-design/

#SystemsThinking #SoftwareDesign #OrganizationalDesign #Leadership #SilentFailure