Group size itself important or is that just the number you picked? Well, I think it's important that it be big enough that you have multi-team dynamics. You can't do this kind of change to 10,000 people at a time. So we try to get our ring around a group that can mostly ship its work with the people inside the circle and then we try to cap it at like kind of a 150 Dunbar's number kind of zone because if you get much bigger than that, it's just a lot to manage. And so culture comes with it, right? Because it is like, Hey, we're going to change how we operate because this data suggests there's
Happy new year! We're not really resolution-making types, but the incrementing of the annum is a good time to take a breath and think about some ways we might want to approach our work differently. On this episode, we took a pretty big swing at "culture" — sitting down with Aaron Dignan, founder of Murmur, author of Brave New Work (and host of the eponymous podcast) — to discuss some of the ways modern organizations are, well, broken! From there, to the analysts within those organizations, to frameworks and approaches for getting to a better way of working, it was a brain-stretching way to kick off 2023! For complete show notes, including links to items mentioned in this episode and a transcript of the show, visit the show page.