The Great Vespa Registration Saga
A cross-country Vespa registration crisis turns into an unexpected lesson in leadership, persistence, and the power of asking the right questions at 8 AM.
Category: Leadership
Leadership: The deliberate design of an organization’s social circuitry – the processes, norms, and routines that enable people to effectively collaborate, leverage their collective ingenuity, and drive high performance. It fosters environments of trust, continuous learning, and distributed problem-solving abilities across teams through simplification and slowification. Effective leadership cultivates a developmental mindset oriented towards constant experimentation and improvement.
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.
Lessons in Self-Organization from the Fungus Among Us
Discover what forest fungi teach us about self-organization. Learn how slippery jacks, Indian pipes, and natural ecosystems show teams how to find their optimal conditions, form authentic partnerships, and thrive without hierarchical control.
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.
IKEA’s 100-Year Vision: Inspired Leadership Evolution Across Generations
Explore how IKEA evolved from a mail-order business to a global phenomenon through forest-inspired principles of intergenerational leadership, mycorrhizal knowledge networks, and patient growth strategies spanning decades.