Superiority by Arthur C. Clarke (a short story about superior technology losing the war)
Technology  organisation  scifi  short_story 
2 days ago by andrewducker
Why You’ve Never Been In A Plane Crash (the no-blame culture of crash investigations)
airplanes  disaster  organisation 
7 weeks ago by andrewducker
London hospital cuts waiting lists with innovative system
healthcare  surgery  efficiency  organisation 
december 2023 by andrewducker
What The Goddamn Hell Is Going On In The Tech Industry? (So very very badly run)
Technology  business  epicfail  organisation 
november 2023 by andrewducker
A modest proposal for helping the Prime Minister “keep on top of government” and “to push priorities”
organisation  politics  UK 
july 2023 by andrewducker
The Rule of Three - how organisations change as they grow
business  organisation  psychology 
april 2023 by andrewducker
Quality Is Systemic
software  systems  organisation  quality 
september 2022 by andrewducker
Dunbar’s number, optimal group sizes, and how speaking is 2.8x better than picking fleas
psychology  groups  communication  business  organisation  friendship 
april 2022 by andrewducker
Why does the UK insist on everything going through middlemen?
UK  organisation  business  money 
april 2022 by andrewducker
How Scholars Once Feared That the Book Index Would Destroy Reading
reading  books  organisation 
february 2022 by andrewducker
What's life like with executive dysfunction?
behaviour  mentalhealth  comic  organisation  tidiness 
november 2021 by andrewducker
Companies need more adults in the room.
economy  business  organisation  doom  parenting  viaDanielDWilliam 
october 2021 by andrewducker
Efficiency Is the Enemy - to be effective you need slack
efficiency  organisation 
may 2021 by andrewducker
Poor people spend much longer waiting for things than rich people
organisation  society  inequality  bureaucracy 
april 2021 by andrewducker
Why ranking employees by performance backfires
work  organisation  epicfail  viaPatrickHadfield 
april 2021 by andrewducker
Performance vs Trust (and why you don't always want the most effective person)
trust  performance  video  organisation 
march 2021 by andrewducker
Nobody uses the word "technocrat" except when they're criticizing something.
government  organisation  civilization  rationality 
january 2021 by andrewducker
Something to remember when you're working with difficult people
organisation  comic  management 
january 2021 by andrewducker
Covid-19 and the Problem of Collective Action
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1311276277798756352.html
pandemic  economics  organisation  government  viaDanielDWilliam 
september 2020 by andrewducker
This is what coronavirus could do to our offices and homes
disease  work  organisation  architecture  design 
august 2020 by andrewducker
Why governance models are important, and how the government keeps doing them badly.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1289127360348987394.html
organisation  UK  fail 
july 2020 by andrewducker
Why "the NHS should prioritize spending on frontline services" is a terrible idea
nhs  organisation 
july 2020 by andrewducker
No matter what else you think of Apple, their ability to execute is amazing
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1275311056672325633.html
Apple  technology  organisation 
june 2020 by andrewducker
How Do You Know If You’re Living Through the Death of an Empire?
Rome  USA  society  organisation  Doom 
june 2020 by andrewducker
How Georgia rebooted its police force.
police  organisation  success 
june 2020 by andrewducker
Stay Alert, That’s Devolved, Save Lives
UK  politics  organisation  devolution 
may 2020 by andrewducker
What is SAP? And how are they worth $163Bn?
business  organisation  software 
february 2020 by andrewducker
"Greatness" - a brilliant short talk on giving up control to make your organisation run better
organisation  video 
january 2020 by andrewducker
The number one predictor of software bugs is organisational complexity
software  bug  organisation  programming 
december 2019 by andrewducker
"The First Non-Bullshit Book About Organisational Culture I’ve Read"
books  organisation  advice  military 
december 2019 by andrewducker
The Efficiency-Destroying Magic of Tidying Up
tidiness  chaos  design  efficiency  organisation 
november 2019 by andrewducker
The "weakest link" theory that explains some of our economic woes
economics  organisation 
november 2019 by andrewducker
Netflix founder: 'Learn when to get out of the way'
advice  business  organisation 
october 2019 by andrewducker
The Myth of Commoditized Excellence - how ideas become movements, and then disillusionment sets in
organisation  ideas  society 
october 2019 by andrewducker
Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths: how subcultures die.
The language is somewhat patronising, but the dynamics look right from my experience
culture  organisation  geek 
october 2019 by andrewducker
What organisational structures allow DevOps to flourish (or doom it)
development  software  organisation  support  viaFanf 
september 2019 by andrewducker
How to Chair an Academic Committee
academia  organisation  funny  ViaDrCross 
september 2019 by andrewducker
What we get wrong about meetings – and how to make them worth attending
organisation  business  ideas 
august 2019 by andrewducker
Do *you* have Todo list debt?
organisation  debt  advice 
august 2019 by andrewducker
When your beehive hires wasp management consultants
metaphor  bees  work  organisation 
june 2019 by andrewducker
Any attempt to design a system for efficiency or speed has to take into account the people using it as a component of the system. (Let's talk boarding planes.)
planes  efficiency  organisation 
june 2019 by andrewducker
Why are large companies so difficult to rescue (regarding bad internal technology)
Technology  organisation  architecture 
june 2019 by andrewducker
Rough Consensus: How Do You Make Good Decisions Efficiently in a Flat Organization?
organisation  decisions 
june 2019 by andrewducker
Your regular reminder that workplaces which don't have a formal structure are a nightmare
organisation  work  business  valve  games 
june 2019 by andrewducker
Forget Inbox Zero - Here's The Case for Inbox Infinity
email  organisation  advice 
january 2019 by andrewducker
Your brain is a cat, and you have to make peace with the one you have.
advice  organisation  mentalhealth 
december 2018 by andrewducker
How Punk Rock Can Revitalize Human Resources (I feel nauseous)
business  organisation  OhForFucksSake 
october 2018 by andrewducker
Why big companies squander brilliant ideas
business  organisation  ideas  innovation  history 
october 2018 by andrewducker
Why Are Enterprises So Slow?
Technology  organisation  business 
october 2018 by andrewducker
Ex-Valve employee describes ruthless internal politics at 'self-organizing' companies
management  organisation  games  business  valve 
july 2018 by andrewducker
First, let's fire all the managers.
Or make everyone a manager.
management  business  organisation  viaFanf 
may 2018 by andrewducker
A collection of management consulting frameworks & graphics that make no sense
management  work  organisation 
january 2018 by andrewducker
A 20-Year Experience of Software Development Methodologies
software  development  organisation 
december 2017 by andrewducker
Why your programmers just want to code
work  software  management  organisation 
december 2017 by andrewducker
Why The Christmas Shopping Season is Worse Every Year (and how it leads to Black Friday)
shopping  organisation  Christmas  sales 
november 2017 by andrewducker
If Humble People Make the Best Leaders, Why Do We Fall for Charismatic Narcissists?
leadership  personality  organisation  society 
april 2017 by andrewducker
How companies change when they hit 150 people
growth  organisation 
december 2016 by andrewducker
"But I'm changing it from within!"
politics  religion  organisation 
october 2016 by andrewducker
How organisations enshrine collective stupidity and employees are rewarded for checking their brains at the office door
business  society  management  work  stupidity  EpicStupidity  organisation 
october 2016 by andrewducker
Merging the Scottish police forces together was a mistake
scotland  police  organisation  politics 
july 2016 by andrewducker
Multitasking is a bad idea. But if you have to, here's some tips on doing it well
organisation  work  viaSwampers 
july 2016 by andrewducker
How To Tackle An Overwhelming To-Do List
advice  organisation  viaSwampers 
july 2016 by andrewducker
People feel less responsible for their actions when they're taking orders
psychology  evil  organisation 
february 2016 by andrewducker
Software is made of decisions
decisions  design  software  architecture  organisation 
november 2015 by andrewducker
What really went wrong at Addenbrooke’s hospital
computers  organisation  business  epicfail 
september 2015 by andrewducker
A software company discovers that you can't just get rid of hierarchy
hierarchy  organisation  business 
august 2015 by andrewducker
How meetings work in Middle Earth
lotr  bureaucracy  organisation 
march 2015 by andrewducker
Organizational Charts for the biggest tech companies
funny  organisation  business  technology 
february 2015 by andrewducker
A New App Is Shattering a Major Myth About Polyamorous Relationships
relationships  polyamory  apps  organisation 
december 2014 by andrewducker
The cost of self-imposed rules is double that associated with government regulations (some great examples!)
bureaucracy  rules  organisation 
october 2014 by andrewducker
Shit big companies say
companies  business  organisation 
october 2014 by andrewducker
How Civil Service organisation leads to bad project governance
organisation  government  CivilService 
april 2014 by andrewducker
The reforms the NHS really needs make a rubbish election strategy
nhs  reform  organisation 
december 2013 by andrewducker
I haven't recommended Workflowy in a while, and it's still awesome. Best to-do list ever.
organisation  todo  lists 
october 2013 by andrewducker
Internet centralization is not a conspiracy
organisation  internet 
september 2013 by andrewducker
On the banality of systemic evil
systems  organisation  secrecy  evil  viafanf 
september 2013 by andrewducker
The Tyranny of Stuctureless (Lots of great advice for anyone working with groups)
The Tyranny of Stuctureless by Jo Freeman
structure  viaMyBrotherHugh  organisation  groups 
july 2013 by andrewducker
Birds are dinosaurs. Apes are monkeys. People are bony fish. Why classification is hard.
life  genes  organisation  ontology 
january 2013 by andrewducker
Widget Factories vs Film Crews - two models of organising teams. Very nice metaphor.
work  organisation  viaHirez 
january 2013 by andrewducker
Photos to torment the orderly-minded.
viaBunn  organisation  photos 
september 2012 by andrewducker
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