Scaling Organizations

ScaleSuccessive stages of letting go

@chfry

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards” -Kierkegaard

Topics• Hiring• Autonomous Teams• Information Dispersal• Economics• Organizational Hacks• Iteration• Learning Organization• Structure & Repetition• Invest in Leadership• Being a public figure• Socialize / Ceremony / Celebrate

“Hire the best and get out of their way”

What is your philosophy of leadership?

How much direct management?

How hands off should you be?

Everyone is an executive

How would you run a 10 person, 100 person, 1000 person organization?

Let’s design

What is the unit of management?

Autonomous Teams

What is the unit of management?

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Information Dispersal & Communication

Everyone is an executive - Drucker

Leadership is communication

Listen -> Decide -> Communicate @dickc

To create autonomy push as much information as you can to the leaf nodes

Economics

Imagine you are the mayor of a small town

You should break every year or so

The job of the hierarchy is to defeat the hierarchy

Monarchy and Democracy

Organizational hacks

Innovative algorithms that invert the economics

OOM AgileCMP

Organizational hacks

What is something you’ve always wanted to try?

Iteration

Get to 1.0 as soon as possible - Edit mode

Iterate / Learn

Learning Organization

Build an org that learns through honesty, retrospectives and data

Plato vs Aristotle

Structure & Repetition

Use just too little structure

Build a regular rhythm

Invest in leadership

@dickc runs a class on management for every new manager

Focus on leadership

Educate

Being a public figure

You are on stage, all the time

You own the perception of your work

Socialize / Ceremony / Celebrate

Companies are networks of relationships between human beings

Thank you!

Business

Scaling Organizations