Every person in your company is a vector. Your progress is determined by the sum of all vectors.
‘Hey! I’m not a vector!’ I cried out to myself internally as I read this. I mean, I get it and there’s a nice tool / thought process in there, but this feels somewhat dehumanising without something to contextualise it. There are loads of tools you might employ to make good decisions that might involve placing someone in a matrix or similar, but hopefully it’s obvious that it’s a modelled exercise for a particular goal and you don’t literally say ‘people are maths’ while you do it.
Anyway, I was thinking of political parties as I read this. If your party does well, you get an influx of members who somewhat share the same goals but are different from the existing core, not chosen by you, probably less knowledgeable about your history and ideology, and less immediately aligned. You have essentially no ability to produce alignment via financial mechanisms or ‘hiring’ processes. How do you get people to pull together? There’s some recent examples of UK parties absolutely mangling this, but probably some good examples too (Obama 2008? German Green Party?) Obviously in organisations there are then additional mechanisms, but this seems interesting to study from the cultural elements which can be more separated out.
‘Hey! I’m not a vector!’ I cried out to myself internally as I read this. I mean, I get it and there’s a nice tool / thought process in there, but this feels somewhat dehumanising without something to contextualise it. There are loads of tools you might employ to make good decisions that might involve placing someone in a matrix or similar, but hopefully it’s obvious that it’s a modelled exercise for a particular goal and you don’t literally say ‘people are maths’ while you do it.
Anyway, I was thinking of political parties as I read this. If your party does well, you get an influx of members who somewhat share the same goals but are different from the existing core, not chosen by you, probably less knowledgeable about your history and ideology, and less immediately aligned. You have essentially no ability to produce alignment via financial mechanisms or ‘hiring’ processes. How do you get people to pull together? There’s some recent examples of UK parties absolutely mangling this, but probably some good examples too (Obama 2008? German Green Party?) Obviously in organisations there are then additional mechanisms, but this seems interesting to study from the cultural elements which can be more separated out.