Complete & Utter Failure
Neil Steinberg discusses the nature of failure and looks at mountain climbing, the national spelling bee, utopias, perpetual motion machines, and immortality
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The Mathematics of No: Why Working Less Delivers More
Discover why 100% utilization guarantees failure and how slack time creates improves throughput and predictability. Learn the mathematics behind strategic “no” decisions and practical experiments to build sustainable team effectiveness through Kingman’s Law, context-switching research, and flow metrics.
Netflix’s Organizational Resilience: Adaptation in a Changing Industry
Learn how Netflix evolved from DVD rental service to global content powerhouse by developing tide pool-inspired organizational adaptations including bounded autonomy, rhythmic change patterns, and productive constraint systems.
From Gremlins to Gargoyles: Transforming Team Defensive Patterns into Collaborative Wisdom
Explore how teams can transform destructive patterns (gremlins) into protective wisdom (gargoyles) through psychological safety practices. Practical framework for recognizing and working with team defensive behaviors.
Spotify’s Organizational Evolution: From Hierarchy to Distributed Leadership
Discover how Spotify evolved its organizational structure from conventional hierarchy to distributed leadership through a savanna-inspired approach of collective intelligence, sentinel roles, and adaptive team structures.