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Rethinking What’s Next: Lessons Learned from the SVB Collapse 

Kotter Inc.

Yet, many continue to operate the same way they have for the last decade if not longer. The modern organizational framework with its traditional hierarchical structure was designed to allow organizations to scale dramatically and to deal with global complexity.

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How to build a billion dollar digital marketplace – examples from Uber, eBay, Craigslist, and more

Andrew Chen

NYU Professor Aswath Damodaran asserted that Uber was overvalued after a 2014 investment round. Since the 2014 article, Uber has blown past his estimate by 10X, with top line revenues to support it. develop partnerships and manage relationships with local hire car operators (NB: Uber does not own any vehicles.

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Organizational Structures that Support Faster Innovation and Evolution

Mike Griffiths

Most medium to large-scale organizations have considerable mindset inertia in the form of strategies, multi-year plans, in-flight programs, and projects, etc. Large-scale processes, specialized resources, and large batch sizes are optimized for maximum efficiency (the lowest cost per widget, the highest productivity rates per worker).

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My top essays/tweetstorms in 2019 on product/market fit, investing, KPIs, YouTubers, and more

Andrew Chen

Fascinating discussion about what it’s like for a serial entrepreneur to raise money, operate a startup, lessons learned, etc. However, as you scale, each cohort gets worse. My order of operations when I sit down with a startup to figure out how to grow their new product. 2) if it is working, then how do we scale it?

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Volunteer Time Off (VTO): All You Need To Know

AIHR

Volunteers can sign up to teach English or coding or to be a part of Paper Airplanes’ operational team. According to a 2014 study , volunteering can help lower high blood pressure risk in older adults by 40%! Everything is done online, so your employees can volunteer from home! Voluntary Time Off vs. Volunteer Time Off.

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How to estimate the complexity of organizational change and the effort required to implement it. (METHODS + EXAMPLES)

Wendy Hirsch

The interplay between two factors provides insight into change complexity — Change Impact (Scale, Scope, Pace) and Readiness (Willingness and Capability). Change impact relates to the scale, scope and pace of change. Methods for Assessing Change Impact Scale of Impact – How many people, across how many locations or functions?

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What is the Deming Cycle (PDCA) in change management?

Walk Me

Such an approach aims to enhance processes gradually while causing minimal disruption to the overall operation. Conducting this test on a smaller scale, ideally in a controlled environment, allows for an adequate evaluation of the results without impacting the broader operational workflow.