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Also recently submitted & on the same topic of effective innovation driving & organizational wayfinding, "Andy Grove on dynamic dialectic"[1], which nicely laid
by rektide 4y ago
Also recently submitted & on the same topic of effective innovation driving & organizational wayfinding, "Andy Grove on dynamic dialectic"[1], which nicely laid out some of the core top-down vs bottom-up struggles. It pegged bottom-up as "chaotic but smart".
Grove talks about something mentioned very early on in Alex's webpage[2] (right under the top link, to a genericized/not-Google-specific Slime Mold presentation), leadership of the gardening style (although specifically Komoroske is talking about gardening platforms). Making sure those with potential & good ideas are enabled, might be how I'd describe it.
On a personal note to me, it's amazing how much we assume - have left individual isolated groups/teams connected upwards & sometimes side-ways as the organizational structure. Leaving only higher up levels of the org structure to mediate & suss out truth, not having workers also put in their bid for how other projects should execute or where priority should be is the practice. Im fascinated by the potential of trying a more connected & aware org, where we try to spend more effort internally communicating & sharing bids for where we think we ought be placing our efforts, where we ought be redirecting or reshaping efforts.
[1] https://www.leadingsapiens.com/andy-grove-balancing-top-down-vs-bottom-up-approaches-leadership/ https://www.leadingsapiens.com/andy-grove-balancing-top-down... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34381928 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34381928
[2] https://komoroske.com/ https://komoroske.com/