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A collection of 31 posts

Notes from Andy Grove’s High Output Management

Love this book, for the clarity of operations principles, and the impact of that to managerial decisions. Also, I’m a huge fan of Grove’s Motivation vs. CUA matrix. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It seems to me that Grove’s book has two themes: (1) How to approach operations, and (2) How

Notes on: Building 20 / Plywood Palace [MIT’s Rad Lab]

Notes on: Building 20 / Plywood Palace [MIT’s Rad Lab]

When I heard of the allure of Building 20, walking down the long corridor, I always confused it with Building 10. It wasn’t until a couple years later that I realized Building 20 was long gone, sitting where the Stata Center now is. Where are the Building 20s of

Hierarchic Span

Ways of Thinking

Hierarchic Span

Or: The joys of being a Big Picture Guy As a young engineer, I was persistently frustrated by the antics of my resident “Big Picture Guy.” BPG oversaw one of my projects at the engineering design firm where I worked. It seemed — to early 20s me — that his business-focused mind

Building as Organizational Statement

Notes Mildred & Ed Hall (known for other work on low/high context cultures) review the impact of building on behavior in an anthropological study centered around a new corporate campus for John Deere in Illinois. There are many ways that this summarizes much of the same approach (and confusion)

Platform Theories, Aggregated

Platform Theories, Aggregated

OR: How frameworks like Ladies’ Night helped me think about product & distribution strategy When scaling a startup in what *feels* like a new category, it’s exciting to think that you’re doing things for the first time. Then — out of the blue — humility slaps you in the face

A Conversation with Herb Simon

One of my early introductions to Herb Simon. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pointer from: CMU Archives: Herbert Simon Collection Place digested: My kitchen, listening along and doing dishes Time digested: April 8, 2018 Source: “A Conversation with Herb Simon” Interview by Julia Love http://doi.library.cmu.edu/10.1184/pmc/simon/box00000/