Category: organizational design

• The Work We Couldn’t See

  

  Photo by Olek Buzunov on Unsplash Author’s Note This is not an argument against AI, nor is it an argument that organizations are broadly incapable of making sound decisions. AI, when applied to well-understood domains with clearly defined inputs and outputs, works. It scales execution, improves throughput, and reduces the burden of routine work. I…

  Dom

  April 26, 2026

  Governance & Systems Design, organizational design

  AI, Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Business Strategy, decision making, Digital Transformation, Future of Work, Innovation, Knowledge Work, Leadership, organizational design, productivity, systems thinking, workforce transformation, workplace culture

• Incentives Don’t Translate

  

  Photo by Rowan Freeman on Unsplash The meeting runs forty-five minutes. A decision gets made. Five people walk out. The shareholder representative leaves satisfied; the numbers presented justified the capital committed, and the projected return sits within acceptable variance for the horizon they care about. The executive leaves focused; the decision clarifies what will be…

  Dom

  April 19, 2026

  Leadership & Teamwork, organizational design

  alignment, business operations, company culture, corporate strategy, decision-making, execution, incentive structures, incentives, Leadership, Management, organizational behavior, organizational design, Strategy, systems thinking, workplace dynamics

• The Grammar of Scale: Reframing Friction as Translation

  

  Photo by Victor Rosario on Unsplash Four astronauts lifted off from Kennedy Space Center aboard Orion, bound for the Moon for the first time in more than fifty years. The mission had taken decades to reach the pad. Thousands of engineers, across dozens of organizations, had contributed systems that had to work together precisely; not…

  Dom

  April 12, 2026

  organizational design, Process Improvement

  business operations, communication breakdowns, cross-functional alignment, data governance, decision making, interface design, Leadership, Management, operational efficiency, organizational complexity, organizational design, Process Design, product thinking, systems thinking, workflow optimization