How do you get together a team of employees, co-founders, advisors, customers and investors when you literally have nothing at … More
Category: Specials / Series
Pre-Seed: Generic Visionaries
From a recent discussion with a few founder friends on how we see ourself, how we saw other founders before … More
Dunbar Analysis – The people you know
Last year I was looking heavily into two distinct topics that I tried to combine for the analysis of emotional … More
Emotions
Managing with emotions is always something that can be very helpful to create an engaged and motivated workforce. But there … More
Global City Networks
This is a copy of an article found under below link with minor comments from my side. The article underlines … More
Group Structures and Population Clusters
How do teams form groups and groups form networks and how do networks settle in regions, ecosystems, cities and neighborhoods. And what does it mean to have 7.5 Billion humans on earth?
In the Numbers Series I am looking to find meaning in numbers. What is a million? What is a thousand? What is a billion?
Group structures and population clusters looks at group formations. Starting from how how team structures are used to build large organizations and how Dunbar’s theory of cognitive capacity to manage cohesions in group sizes, I look at some numbers in the context of population economics and group structures.
Dunbar Cells and Social Network Design
Some concepts about measuring quality and size of proximity networks .
Delusions based on Company Maturity
Delusion organizations emerge when people lack shared beliefs, mental representations and we as managers allow fiction to win over facts.
Dark Rhetorics at work
The power of language in abuse and delusional organizations.
Delusions and Business Cults
In the second post on cult-ish leadership, we look into how things can go wrong.