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  1. Last 7 days
    1. Meta is reportedly developing an AI version of Mark Zuckerberg that can interact with employees, trained on his voice, mannerisms, and internal thinking as part of the company's broader push into AI.

      创建AI版本的CEO这一概念既令人着迷又令人不安,它代表了AI技术从工具向身份和权威的延伸。这不仅是技术上的挑战,更是对领导力本质和企业结构的深刻探索。如果成功,这种AI领导模式可能改变我们对组织管理和决策的理解,同时也引发关于真实性、授权和伦理的复杂问题。

    1. While most people still use AI mainly for personal tasks, about half of employed users use it at least as much for work. This share is even higher among those with paid tools, particularly when provided by employers.

      这一数据点揭示了AI在工作场所采用的分水岭性质——虽然个人使用仍占主导,但工作使用已经达到相当比例。更值得注意的是,雇主提供的付费工具显著提高了工作使用率,这表明组织因素在AI采用中扮演着关键角色。这一趋势可能加速AI在工作场所的整合,并改变未来工作性质。

  2. Apr 2026
    1. A "parallel organization chart," in which each AI worker has a name, manager, and job description, allows your company to move faster than it ever could with humans alone.

      「平行组织架构」——这个概念把 AI Agent 从工具变成了组织成员。每个 AI 有名字、汇报关系和职位描述,这意味着 Every 实际上在运行两套组织:一套人类,一套 AI。令人惊讶的是,这种设计并非隐喻,而是字面意义上的运营实践。这是 AI 组织化最前沿的实验:不问「AI 能做什么」,而问「AI 应该向谁汇报」。

    1. If agents can execute all your ideas nearly as fast as you can prompt them, there's no point in implementing only your best idea. It might be better to implement your top three ideas all in parallel, but this makes it harder to stay organized.

      「想法即执行」重构了创新流程的根本逻辑:当前的研究范式是「先筛选最优方案再执行」,未来将变成「并行执行多个方案再筛选」。这是从「精益决策」到「并行探索」的范式迁移——类似于从串行计算到并行计算的架构革命。代价是「组织复杂度爆炸」:同时管理十几个并行项目的结果,可能比串行执行三个更难,不是因为工作更多,而是因为理解和整合更难。

    2. a future project might take ~42 days of wall-clock time, with ~8 hours of agent work (not counting running the evals) and 1000 serial hours of human IC work, evals execution, and review.

      「瓶颈-执行比」超过 100:1——这是这篇文章最令人震惊的数字。一个 42 天的项目中,AI 执行工作仅占 8 小时,其余 1000 小时都是串行的人类瓶颈(审查、实验等待、反馈收集)。这意味着即便拥有无限 AI 执行能力,项目速度的实际瓶颈依然是「人类审批链」——组织架构,而非技术能力,将成为 AI 时代的核心竞争力。

    3. Most people estimated around 3-5x uplift compared to Feb 2026 (i.e. doing 1-2 weeks of work during this 2-day period).

      3-5 倍的组织效率提升——但这来自 17 倍时间地平线的 AI。效率提升与能力提升之间的换算比率约为 TH^0.39,意味着 AI 能力提升的大部分收益被「组织瓶颈」消耗掉了。令人惊讶的是,当执行速度接近无限时,人类组织的协调摩擦、审查流程、实验等待,成为了主要的速度限制因素——而非 AI 本身的能力。

    1. You have to have people that have the ability to rethink the workflow at a scale that AI can execute, versus at a scale that humans can execute.

      大多数人认为AI应该适应现有工作流程,但作者提出相反观点:人类需要重新设计工作流程以适应AI的能力范围。这一反直觉观点强调,AI的成功实施不仅需要技术,更需要组织思维方式的根本转变,从人类执行规模转向AI执行规模。

  3. Aug 2025
    1. https://sustainingcommunity.wordpress.com/2019/02/01/4-types-of-power/#comment-122967

      Given your area, if you haven't found it yet, you might appreciate going a generation further back in your references with: Mary P. Follett. Dynamic Administration: The Collected Papers of Mary Parker Follett, ed. by E. M. Fox and L. Urwick (London: Pitman Publishing, 1940). She had some interesting work in organization theory you might appreciate. Wikipedia can give you a quick overview. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Parker_Follett#Organizational_theory

  4. Apr 2025
  5. Nov 2024
    1. What did many of these progressive movements end up doing? Creating new cultural norms and new government regulations. Many of them mark important accomplishments and progress. Some of them are perhaps a bit over the top. But what’s often missing? The perspective of the makers, the frontline professionals who must operate inside ever-growing straightjackets of regulation and bureaucracy

      Great critique. Enactivating change management through "corrective standards and regulation" distorts surprising moments from opportunities for distributed learnign into a compliance checklist for heirarchy

  6. May 2024
    1. Holacracy is a system of corporate governance whereby members of a team or business form distinct, autonomous, yet symbiotic, teams to accomplish tasks and company goals. The concept of a corporate hierarchy is discarded in favor of a fluid organizational structure where employees have the ability to make key decisions within their own area of authority.
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    1. Web assimilation is the extent of organizational use of web technologies in facilitating e-commerce strategies and activities. Our definition focuses on the relative success of firms (as compared to other firms in the industry) in incorporating the Web technology into its e-commerce strategies and activities. This definition is consistent with perspectives on Type III IS innovations, with earlier treatments of IT assimilation at the organizational level (Armstrong and Sambamurthy 1999), and reflects our interest in understanding firms as innovation systems for attaining differential levels of technology assimilation success (Fichman 2001). We regard the level of assimilation to be one of the visible outcomes of the stream of structuring actions across the firm. Further, we anticipate the differential level of assimilation success across firms to be linked to the nature of the institutional enablers or the metastructuring actions within those firms.

      Definition and further explanation of the mean of Web Asssimilation.

  10. Nov 2023
  11. Jan 2023
    1. I have a bit of a soft spot for Niklas Luhmann ever since David Seidl introduced me to his ideas. I think it was at an EGOS conference in the early 2000s.

      https://petersmith.org/blog/2022/12/10/zettelkasten/

      Peter Smith was introduced to Niklas Luhmann at an European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) Conference in the early 2000s, ostensibly a business related group.


      I came across this via an IndieWeb reference and webmention.

  12. Oct 2022
    1. Mosca backs up histhesis with this assertion: It's the power of organization thatenables the minority always to rule. There are organizedminorities and they run things and men. There are unorganizedmajorities and they are run.

      In a democracy, is it not just rule by majority, but rule by the most organized that ends up dominating the society?

      Perhaps C. Wright Mills' work on the elite has some answers?

      The Republican party's use of organization to create gerrymandering is a clear example of using extreme organization to create minority rule. Cross reference: Slay the Dragon in which this issue is laid out with the mention of using a tiny amount of money to careful gerrymander maps to provide outsized influences and then top-down outlines to imprint broad ideas from a central location onto smaller individual constituencies (state and local).

  13. Nov 2021
  14. Jul 2021
    1. As I studied Edwards’ writings and insights, I realized that I might be sitting at the feet of not only Edwards’ intellectual genius but his organizational genius, too. 

      For what I expect to be a coming description of Jonathan Edwards' commonplace book, I'm surprised that the page doesn't use the word or even florilegium.

      Everhard here makes in one breath a common error I'm coming to notice. While it might be true that Edwards had some organizational genius, I think it's disingenuous to attribute his output to his intellectual genius. More and more I'm seeing that throughout history those who were thought of as intellectual geniuses really relied on the organization structures of their commonplace books (or similar devices). By writing, thinking, and producing in a commonplace tradition they were able to do far more, think more clearly, and accomplish more.

      This can be linked with the idea also espoused in Robert Greene's Mastery which seems to have some of the similar flavor.

  15. Mar 2021
    1. Kniffin, K. M., Narayanan, J., Anseel, F., Antonakis, J., Ashford, S., Bakker, A. B., Bamberger, P., Bapuji, H., Bhave, D. P., Choi, V. K., Creary, S. J., Demerouti, E., Flynn, F., Gelfand, Mi., Greer, L., Johns, G., Kesebir, S., Klein, P. G., Lee, S. Y., … van vugt, mark. (2020). COVID-19 and the Workplace: Implications, Issues, and Insights for Future Research and Action [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/gkwme

  16. Oct 2020
    1. Work groups are to be organized so that they match the processes and the competencies required Individual workers will be given sufficient autonomy to make useful decisions Work will take place in a location where it is done with the most efficiency

      Organizational Design Principles for Service Design

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  20. Nov 2018
    1. Medical groups, managed care organizations, or, most commonly, hospitals often find it attractive to support hospitalist programs. If hospitalists improve quality, shorten lengths of stay, and decrease costs while satisfying patients and other providers, the return on these organizations' investments in hospitalist programs is highly favorable. Over time, it will be critical that professional fee reimbursement rates be adjusted so that a sustainable hospitalist workload creates sufficient income to support a full salary.
    1. As with other forms of value-based health care, patient-centered care requires a shift in the way provider practices and health systems are designed, managed, and reimbursed. In keeping with the tenets of patient-centeredness, this shift neither happens in a vacuum, it driven by traditional hierarchies in which providers or clinicians are the lone authority. Everyone, from the parking valet and environmental services staff to c-suite members, are engaged in the process, which impacts hiring, training, leadership style, and organizational culture. Patient-centered care also represents a shift in the traditional roles of patients and their families from one of passive “order taker” to one of active “team member.” One of the country’s leading proponents of patient-centered care, Dr. James Rickert, has stated that one of the basic tenets of patient-centered care is that “patients know best how well their health providers are meeting their needs.” To that end, many providers are implementing patient satisfaction surveys, patient and family advisory councils, and focus groups, and using the resulting information to continuously improve the way health care facilities and provider practices are designed, managed, and maintained from both a physical and operational perspective so they become centered more on the individual person than on a checklist of services provided. As the popularity of patient- and family-centered health care increases, it is expected that patients will become more engaged and satisfied with the delivery of their care, and evidence of its clinical efficacy should continue to mount.

      Cultural shift to patient-centered care

  21. Sep 2018
  22. Jul 2018
    1. Orlikowski and Yates [34], working in the field of organization studies, build on this point. They argue that time is plural; it can be experienced as objective, quantitative and independent of humankind, but also as subjective, situated and socially constructed.

      Org studies description of multiple temporalities by Orlikowski and Yates.

  23. Jan 2016
    1. Getting and staying healthy involves tending to the people-oriented aspects of leading an organization, so it may sound “fluffy” to hard-nosed executives raised on managing by the numbers. But make no mistake: cultivating health is hard work. And it shouldn’t be confused with other people-related management concepts, such as employee satisfaction or employee engagement.

      I am looking forward to what these authors will provide as a recipe for cultivating health, and how they define organizational health.