Undercurrent
Strategy looks clean on paper. Undercurrent is about what happens underneath.
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Silo of one (opens the original)
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I can hardly believe it when I work with departments whose objectives are as disconnected as their reporting lines. Modern organizations, the companies we work in and with today, have existed for nearly a century. And yet we can’t seem to solve the problem of talking to other departments. What makes silos so permanent?Part of it is in our nature. Large groups of people need to organize themselves around something the mind can grasp and make sense of. It’s why communities start fragmenting into s
Meaning has no department (opens the original)
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The standard you don’t outgrow (opens the original)
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