The #FutureofWork Isn’t About #AI - It’s About How We Redesign Work Around People www.linkedin.com/pulse/future... @mervyndinnen.bsky.social #OrgDesign #JobDesign #HR #HCM #HRM #HumanResources
Vibes are data. Especially in hiring. #PeopleOps #OrgDesign #Recruiting
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Transparency, even when intense, can count for something. #OrgDesign #StartupLife #Management
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3/ The problem was never the heroes. It's the cost of the heroics.
Your job as a leader: lower that cost so your best people can keep caring without it breaking them or the org.
I wrote about how: eric.lubow.org/2026/systems...
#EngineeringLeadership #AIAdoption #OrgDesign
Small team + massive mandate = fragile execution. #Executive #OrgDesign #Careers
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Coming next: 12B (board reframe: intention → attractor governance via invariants + authorized transformations) and 12C (playbook: intensity diagnosis—amplifiers/dampeners/stuck loops + redesign moves + monitoring).
#Governance #SystemsThinking #OrgDesign
AI pilots are easy. Scaling isn’t.
Check your org’s readiness with the free self-assessment. You will get your results across 5 dimensions and also more details in a PDF by email 👇
joaorosa.consulting/is-your-company-ready-to-scale-ai
#AI #Scaling #OrgDesign
If a role is meant to fix escalations and client issues, does “Chief of Staff” carry enough external authority? #Leadership #Hiring #OrgDesign
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Why hire Chief of Staff before operational leadership? That’s a strategic choice, so make it intentionally. #Executive #OrgDesign #Careers
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When a Chief of Staff “owns” prioritization, execution, and follow-through, they may have more operational power than the founder. Is that by design? #Leadership #Startups #OrgDesign
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Political Chief of Staff = campaign producer. Corporate Chief of Staff = depends entirely on the org. Titles travel. Expectations don’t. #Leadership #Hiring #OrgDesign
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How do you do, fellow kids? (old man with skateboard, 30 Rock)
Dear followers and "fellow kids,"
In hopes of landing an interesting and fulfilling next gig, I just wanted to let you know that I'm ready for new assignments. Preferably helping companies with digital transformations that keep people at the centre.
#SocioTechnical #OrgDesign #SystemsThinking
Coming next: 11B (board reframe: govern seams, not boxes—Critical Seam Register + commutativity status) and 11C (playbook: Assemblage Map v2 → seam register → three-edge redesign → instrument throughput vs burial).
#Governance #OrgDesign #SystemsThinking
Coming next: 10B (board reframe: from pilot success → reterritorialization funding; why boards accidentally buy churn) and 10C (playbook: Two-Speed Innovation Plan—Line-of-Flight charter + stabilization backlog + repair/rollback discipline).
#Governance #OrgDesign #SystemsThinking
We didn’t kill management with AI agents. We rebuilt it in JSON, evals, retries, and orchestration graphs.
go.abvx.xyz/qsvqls
#AgenticAI #LLMOps #AIOps #WorkflowDesign #OrgDesign
Tech moves fast. What matters is whether your organization can move with it.
Invest in mindset + enablement so teams lead adoption instead of fearing it.
Full episode vist.ly/4ttrb
#EngineeringLeadership #ProductLeadership #OrgDesign #CTO
The Arch’s Mandate: Replacing Informal Management With Designed Governance 🧩
Informal management feels fast at first but creates invisible bottlenecks over time. Governance architecture replaces ad‑hoc decisions with clear paths, roles, and rules.
#Governance #OrgDesign #Leadership #SVA
“Lead special projects and achieve outcomes.” The outcomes will be… outcomes. If that sentence passes review, bigger problems exist. #Hiring #Leadership #OrgDesign
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“Projects with outcomes” sounds fine — until no one can define the outcomes. Ambiguity doesn’t disappear once you’re hired. #Hiring #Leadership #OrgDesign
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Embedded coaches can be powerful — but only if accountability is clear.
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#OrgDesign #Leadership
For culture and coaching roles, the org chart matters more than the title.
This job ad skipped it entirely.
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#OrgDesign #Hiring
The Architect’s Mandate: Exposing Structural Execution Drag 🚧
Structural execution drag is the hidden tax on strategy — the gap between what leadership narrates and what the organization can execute. Naming it is the first step to eliminating it.
#Leadership #StrategyExecution #OrgDesign #SVA
Every “culture coach” came from HR. Every one reports into HR. That reframes the entire role.
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#HR #OrgDesign #Hiring
The Architect’s Mandate: When leadership’s intent stays verbal, not architectural, clarity collapses. Great leaders build structure, not dependency. Architect your vision. #Leadership #Strategy #Execution #OrgDesign
If a role is evergreen, slow down. Refine it. Test it. Iterate. Evergreen ≠ unfinished.
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#Hiring #OrgDesign #Recruitment
New issue of The Clearing is up, and it's all about why UX teams get cut first, and what it'll actually take to change that pattern.
equitabl.substack.com/p/2-the-roi-...
#UXDesign #equitabl #UXStrategy #OrgDesign #ProductEvals
If we want to achieve lasting #Productivity, we must stop rearranging the Org Chart and start transforming the Work itself! www.linkedin.com/pulse/we-wan... #OrgDesign #JobDesign #WorkDesign #HR #HCM #HRM #HumanResources #PeopleAnalytics #WorkforceAnalytics
Coming next: 8B (board reframe: incident handling → event metabolism, incl. “event burial rate”) and 8C (playbook: Event Ledger + Reopen→Redesign→Re-stabilize; metrics: throughput vs burial, time-to-re-stabilize).
#DRT #AI #Governance #OrgDesign
Why your best people are leaving (and what #HR must do about it) www.unleash.ai/employee-exp... #HCM #HRM #HumanResources #OrgDesign #JobDesign #retention #engagement #e4s #OrgDev
The Squeezed Middle: Why Organisations Must Rethink the Role of Middle #Management www.linkedin.com/pulse/squeez... @mervyndinnen.bsky.social #OrgDev #OrgDesign #JobDesign #leadership