The Fundamental Attribution Error in Large Organizations

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A large organization is thrive on communication about, you know, the way other people work. It's really easy to get stuck in this trap where people aren't trusting one another across the large organization. And an ambiguous environment is fast moving. If you're already looking, already assume it's so another team or another person isn't going to do a very good job, you'll find all kinds of signal in the ambiguous stuff that's happening that will reaffirm that hypothesis.

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Why do organizations get slower as they grow? What can organizations learn from slime molds? What are the advantages of top-down organization versus bottom-up organization, and vice versa? How can organizations encourage serendipity? What use are doorbells in jungles? Why is it so hard for organizations to set a "north star" that is at once plausible, coherent, and good?

Alex Komoroske has over a decade of experience in the tech industry as a product manager focusing on platform- and ecosystem-shaped problems. While at Google, he worked on Chrome's Web Platform PM team, Augmented Reality in Google Maps, and Ambient Computing. He's fascinated by how to navigate the emergent complexity within organizations to achieve great results. You can find some of his public writing at komoroske.com.

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