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A talk @leebryant gave at Meaning 2013 looking at startups and corporates and the lack of innovation in org design they both suffer from; plus, how we could turn the best of our new firms into C21st institutions to give longevity to our ideas and values.

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who is building the institutionsof the twenty-first century ?

POST*SHIFT LEE BRYANT

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very old, successful firms rarely had one-dimensional goals

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is business only about capital accumulation ?

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are there also other ways to create and measure value?

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short-termism: managers vs shareholders in public firms

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short-termism: managers vs shareholders in public firms

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finance was once a service to business; but now owns it

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startups: a new way or just a financial product?

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unicorn hunting: too many startups internalise VC goals

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unicorn hunting: too many startups internalise VC goals

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acqui-hires and sunsetting

2008 Personal annual report for Lee Bryant

GenevaFeb 05 to Feb 08

SevillaFeb 26 to Feb 28

MunichMay 28

BostonJun 08 to Jun 13

CopenhagenJun 25 to Jun 27

BerlinOct 20 to Oct 23

FrankfurtNov 11 to Nov 12

ParisDec 09 to Dec 10

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

In 2008, you mostly coincided with:

Henriette in Geneva, Copenhagen and Lisbon

Pedroin Geneva, Copenhagen and Setúbal

Stowein Copenhagen, Lisbon and Berlin

Colinincluding Geneva and Copenhagen

Thomasincluding Geneva and Copenhagen

You took 12 trips in 2008, which added up to 29,416 km or 8% of the distance to the moon.

In 2008, you spent

319 47You have 177 travellers in your network. They travelled a total of 9,538,128 km in 2008, and everyone on Dopplr travelled a total of 1331.4 million km or 8.9 AU in 2008: the approximate distance to Saturn from the Earth as of January 2009.

Your personal velocity for 2008 was 3.36 km/h, which is about the same as a duck.

The 5 most popular cities in your network are London, New York, San Francisco, Milan and Paris.

The furthest distance you travelled was to Boston (5,269 km from London), which is the 9th most popular city on Dopplr. The shortest distance you travelled was to Brighton (76 km from London), which is the 70th most popular city on Dopplr.

You spent the longest in Blato. Your carbon for 2008

3,607 kg CO2Based on figures from Fueleconomy.gov, 1 x Hummer H3 4WD truck produces nearly 10 metric tonnes of CO2 a year. The visualisation above uses this figure to illustrate your carbon from Dopplr as calculated by our friends at http://amee.cc and is an approximation only.

The city images above sourced from Flickr and are used under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence: Going to the Park by Alexandre Duarte, Alcazar relief by chantrybee, BMW - Welt by digital cat _, Sunset on the Charles by Pear Biter, c.f.hansen, christiansborg palace church, copenhagen, 1810-1826 by seier+seier+seier, we'll meet again by chaosinjune, Telephone Booth by maha-online and Paris Old Metro Signboard by pedrosimoes7.

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you don’t need to lose your purpose to scale and grow

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why so little innovation around org design ?

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many problems begin with the org chart

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many problems begin with the org chart

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many problems begin with the org chart

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many problems begin with the org chart

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too much focus on appearances vs real value creation

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Coase’s transaction costs thesis: reality is less rational

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Microsoft’s failed stack-ranking management system

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even Google suffers the middle management problem

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even Google suffers the middle management problem

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after all, if you have a money tree, what else matters?

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org design, structure and culture are key to building C21st orgs

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social business technology: necessary but not sufficient

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more interesting: the new affordances it brings into play

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we already have many alternatives to simple hierarchies

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“The centre is tired"

photo: @honorharger

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“speed, trust, scalability. tangible, epic goals”

photo: @georgejulian

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“Collective intelligence is the way to crack problems”

photo: @honorharger

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“creating wealth for society through solidarity”

photo: @georgejulian

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Haier: from state industry to agile market leader

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Kyocera: de-centralised ‘amoeba management’

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Morning Star: efficiency through self-management

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Valve: no management required

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Valve: no management required

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Valve: no management required

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white goods, old tech, agriculture & gaming - anyone can do it

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but must startups mimic corporates when they ‘grow up’ ?

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five areas where these guys could learn something…

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planning and project management: agile, open, flexible

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working in the open: shared as the default setting

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devops: automate and monitor *all the things*

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the wiki way: if you see a problem, fix it

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role- and task-focus, not management by entitlement

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role- and task-focus, not management by entitlement

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let’s create the new institutions

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institutions codify and give longevity to ideas

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what might post-C20th organisations look like?

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what might post-C20th organisations look like?

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fractal structures are more resilient at scale than hierarchy

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how do we get there from here?

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this is not your consultant’s ‘change programme’

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Services GOV.UK performance Transactions Explorer

Performance ALPHA

Driving and transport Benefits

Businesses and self-employed Employing people

Passports, travel and living abroad Education and learning

Working, jobs and pensions Housing and local services

Crime, justice and the law Money and tax

Births, deaths, marriages and care Disabled people

Citizenship and life in the UK

Services and information

How government works

Worldwide

Policies

Announcements

Departments and policy

Departments

Topics

Publications

Help Cookies Contact Cymraeg Built by the Government Digital Service

© Crown Copyright

GOV.UK overview Departments and policy

Is there anything wrong with this page?

All content is available under the Open Government Licence v2.0, except where otherwise stated

GOV.UK performance

Departments and policy

Web traffic

Content

Departments and policy content had 1.46million visitors last week, a decrease of 2%from the week before

Weekly unique visitorsUnique visitors per week to departments and policy

Source: Google Analytics

4 May 18 May 1 June 15 June 29 June 13 July 27 July 10 Aug 24 Aug 7 Sept 21 Sept 5 Oct 19 Oct0

0.5m

1.0m

1.5m

Top policies last weekTop 10 most viewed policies on GOV.UK

Policy Views Policy Views

1. Helping people to buy a home DCLG - Updated 8 October 2013

12.2k 6. Helping people to find and stay in work DWP - Updated 8 August 2013

4.23k

2. Simplifying the welfare system and making surework pays DWP - Updated yesterday

10.9k 7. Making the State Pension simpler and fairer DWP - Updated 8 August 2013

4.15k

3. Increasing the use of low-carbon technologies DFT - Updated 20 September 2013

8.35k 8. Providing effective building regulations so thatnew and altered buildings are safe, accessibleand efficient DCLG - Updated 20 August 2013

3.85k

4. Helping households to cut their energy bills DCLG - Updated 17 October 2013

5.40k 9. Reducing and managing waste Defra - Updated yesterday

3.43k

5. Reducing obesity and improving diet DH - Updated 25 March 2013

4.31k 10. Creating a fairer and more equal society DCMS - Updated 30 April 2013

3.33k

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keyword or title

Less engaged More engaged14% 85%

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leadership is even more vital, but management is not

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the future of work ?

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what might the ‘old firms’ of the future look like ?

{ }explicitly blended business goals - not only financial

!better ecosystem thinking to reduce costs for all players

!social tech + new culture of work + new structural design

!employ people, be situated in a community, contribute

!sustainable ownership and funding models not IPOs

!

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credits and references

Images: !http://i.imgur.com/5mHPnj9.png http://www.flickr.com/photos/tinkerszone/3948664111 http://i.imgur.com/Qr3xx.jpg http://www.flickr.com/photos/lancefisher/4704384949 http://www.flickr.com/photos/dce76/159422716 http://www.flickr.com/photos/davegray/8194170066/ http://www.current.com.au/2012/09/26/article/Haier-Learning-An-inside-look-at-Haiers-short-marriage-to-Fisher--Paykel/NFZBKHSEQP http://www.flickr.com/photos/42931449@N07/5299199423 http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5547/9713908761_133c3f4119.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mediaeval_universities.jpg http://www.espresto.com/image/esp_contentpage_igr/esp_39813.jpg http://www.buzzfeed.com/copyranter/the-worst-climbing-the-corporate-ladder-stock-photos http://www.flickr.com/photos/rcbodden/5142987254 !!!Other references: !!http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/abrash/valve-how-i-got-here-what-its-like-and-what-im-doing-2/ http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ffb9028c-4619-11e3-9487-00144feabdc0.html?siteedition=uk&siteedition=uk http://firstround.com/article/How-Medium-is-building-a-new-kind-of-company-with-no-managers http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/05/meetings-all-the-way-down/ http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/02/welcome-to-the-unicorn-club/ !