The Importance of Diversifying Your Approaches

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If you're not sure whether to do something, instead of debating it endlessly, do some really cheap version of it that allows you to essentially like assess the demand. So why don't organizations do this more often? I think it's funny, a bunch of these approaches are extremely repeatably successful. They have pretty large returns and generally like very positive returns. But they again, you know, when you do these kinds of patterns in large organizations, people go, oh, you just got lucky.

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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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