Essays on work design and the craft of operating well inside complex systems.
A solo work design consultant’s answer to “What do you do all day?”—two live engagements, one small and one enterprise-wide, and the convictions they share.
Read → July 2026The smallest complete expression of your operating system—and the easiest place to start redesigning it.
Read → June 2026Why most team charters feel dead on the wall—and what fiction writers know about building a world a team can actually act inside.
Read → June 2026What a controversial German philosopher can teach you about creating better organizations—and why the best work design is the kind you get to forget.
Read → April 2026A business name is a bet—why these two words carry three meanings at once, and what each one commits this practice to.
Read → January 2026The case for building internal work design capacity instead of renting it—the founding argument of this practice.
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