Is efficient scaling an oxymoron in a dynamic business environment? Or an arms race in a zero sum game? If it is, is there an alternative? How can a scalable organisation and business be built around this alternative approach?
As businesses become more complex in their value propositions to customers, its systems get hit by entropy. Chaos becomes common and disorder is the default. Ultimately, this will lead to a collapse, but is it possible to delay the inevitable? What can an organisation do?
Taylor Pearson wrote an excellent primer on blockchain a while ago. While explaining why blockchain matters, he quoted something by Alfred North Whitehead Photo by Joshua Newton on Unsplash
I caught this in the Farnam Street newsletter, and went about looking for the source. An HBR article from 2014 titled Making Business Personal, which also writes at length what and how certain organisations overcome this.
In many beer fueled conversations, I have heard the sentiment of “quitting my job and doing something I am passionate about.” While I see merit in that line of thought, these days I also end up playing party-pooper by asking if he/she has a business model in mind, especially since the ‘passion’ is more often […]