Self-Organization Design

Gary Hamel’s MLab group just sent us a nice book that captured the paper cocoon of ideas that we wrapped around us.

It’s funny trying to reconstruct the conversation from the stream of seemingly salient bullet points. (And I guess I just can’t stop thinking about ants, ever since I read Gödel, Escher, Bach)

Here, I was trying to unpack my comment that the role of upper management is to tune the parameters of communication.

In my diagram, ants^n > sum(ants)

We have the opportunity to run some experiments with the 55K employees of HCL in India, so that was the far right column.