We are dedicated to a few, key ideas about scalable organizations. * Smarter is better. Most practical is best. * Organizations fail in predictable ways, especially from insufficient or inappropriate internal coordination. * Even when an organization does some things very well, it limits itself by letting members work at cross purposes. * All disciplines - and nature in general - reveal similar, repeated patterns: analogous patterns for co-scaling size and agility, with recognizably similar solutions. * No organization optimally leverages all available options! They need pragmatic ways to practice becoming continuously more effective. * Unpredictably changing requirements and currently supposed "best practices" randomly point in diverging directions, leaving persistent Output Gaps. * There is a better way. We can help. 2) Groups "generate tempo by decentralizing decisionmaking" 3) Groups decentralize decision-making by distributing resources well enough to explore distributed options. (We teach one another, share resources, & give time for study & practice.) 4) Groups continually prioritize decentralized decisions by distributing feedback well enough to continuously re-align all actions with net benefit. “If you see a group of people digging themselves into a hole, and offer to help them in some way, they will always ask you to jump in and help them dig.” Anonymous, public school teacher |