KatalystDI: Organizing Work Towards Adaptive Organizations (w/ Libo Li)

The world is changing fast. In order for your practice to survive, you’ll have to change along with it. New technologies and new ways of communicating can be scary, but humans have always evolved and adapted by using new tools. During this Section Cut interview, Libo Li, CTO of KatalystDI, talked to us about how becoming an adaptive organization has to start from the firm culture, how better organization tools can lead to better design, and how experimentation and permission to fail is key to improving.

Interview Takeaways

• Adapt to survive
• Organize for better designs
• Move past paper-based communication
• Be a tool maker, not just a tool user
• Create an adaptable culture
• Experiment and iterate
• Adapt in the right direction
• Reduce blocking events & introduce independent action
• Create tools within Notion
• Use templates for repeatable work
• Code what you know
• Keep a growth mindset and allow failure

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