Boundaryless Conversations Podcast

Roger Martin, one of the world’s most influential business thinkers and former Dean of the Rotman School of Management, joined us on this episode to talk about all things strategy. He breaks down how organizations can keep up with the dynamism and complexity of it all: the evolution of strategy across the decades, digital transformation, decentralization’s impact, and the latest frontier, the rapid adoption of AI and LLMs. He challenges traditional approaches to strategy and impact measurement metrics like OKRs, stating, “Strategy is what you do, not what you say." In this candid conversation, he also dispels the angst surrounding AI taking over strategy roles in organizations, highlighting why AI and LLMs are valuable for rapidly synthesizing information but lack the capacity for generating unique, strategic insights that require human judgment and creativity. Join us for this conversation filled with insights. Known for his practical approach, Roger Martin—who’s authored many bestselling books, including “Playing to Win”—has guided thousands worldwide to make clear, actionable choices that drive competitive advantage. In the conversation, we also touch upon themes of risk-taking and the importance of empowering leaders to think strategically at every level of the organization. He argues that teams should be able to challenge ideas and push boundaries, all of which are vital for sparking real innovation. Key Highlights 👉 Leaders should act as strategic coaches, guiding teams to align with bigger goals and fostering a culture of proactive decision-making. 👉 Finding the right balance between centralization and decentralization empowers teams with autonomy while maintaining a unified direction. 👉 Constructive tension within teams drives innovation by encouraging open challenges to ideas, leading to breakthrough solutions. 👉 Embracing intelligent risk-taking is crucial; it allows organizations to grow and adapt rather than playing it safe and missing out on opportunities. 👉 Avoiding one-size-fits-all frameworks is crucial; each organization’s strategy should be uniquely tailored to its specific context. 👉 AI and LLMs serve as powerful tools for rapid analysis and synthesis but cannot replace, human strategic judgment. Topics /chapters (00:00) Doing Strategy in a World of Ruthless Change - intro (00:55) Roger Martin (02:48) Strategy Evolution over 20 Years (07:21) Centralization vs Decentralization: Where to Apply in the Organization? (16:03) Fragmented Decision Making and Creating Boundaries in Strategy (24:20) Building Entrepreneurship in Organizations (35:09) Collaboration vs. Competition in a High Resource Environment (39:37) Creating Shared Value (46:37) AI, LLMs, and the future of Strategy (57:52) Breadcrumbs and Suggestions Remember that you can always find transcripts and key highlights of the episode on our website: https://www.boundaryless.io/podcast/martin-roger/ Find out more about the show and the research at Boundaryless at https://boundaryless.io/resources/podcast Get in touch with Boundaryless: Twitter: https://twitter.com/boundaryless_ Website: https://boundaryless.io/contacts LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/boundaryless-pdt-3eo Music Music from Liosound / Walter Mobilio. Find his portfolio here: https://blss.io/Podcast-Music

Have you ever wondered how visualizing complex futures can help you take actions and decisions today? Fabien Girardin and Nicolas Nova, pioneers of the practice of Design Fiction, take us on a journey into it to explain what it is for and what comes beyond it. This episode reveals what it means to create tangible expressions of potential futures while considering its complex relationship with technology, global trends, and societal implications. They share real-world examples of scenario building and discuss how to operationalize future thinking in organizations through the use of co-creation, AI, and other tools. Fabien and Nicolas have spent decades guiding small and large organizations to envision and prepare for future scenarios. They are now working to expand the design fiction practice beyond its initial decades of practice. Their work has helped organizations move beyond abstract predictions by engaging with diegetic and relatable prototypes, creating thousands of tools for strategic reflection. Taking the example of the “IKEA Catalog for the Future,” they highlight how everyday objects can become evocative representations that make future concepts more accessible. This episode will serve as a comprehensive guide to visualizing imagination, including insights into AI's potential role as a creative accelerator in building such prototypes. Tune in to discover actionable methods to help you navigate the complexities of the future before it happens. Discount Code for Listeners! Fabien and Nicolas have been kind enough to offer all our listeners a 20% Discount for the Manual of Design Fiction Book (Paperback Edition): Discount Code: BOUND-7BDS4 Link to the shop with discount: https://books.girardinnova.com/discount/BOUND-7BDS4?redirect=%2Fproducts%2Fthe-manual-of-design-fiction Disclaimer: this is not an affiliate link, Boundaryless doesn’t monetize your book purchase. Key Highlights 👉 Design Fiction shifts future thinking from abstract complexities to tangible prototypes, making it easier for organizations to grasp the potential impact of future scenarios. 👉 Using mundane, everyday objects is important to bring complex technological and societal changes to life while making it more relatable. 👉 Building a "Design Fiction muscle" involves integrating future thinking as a regular practice within organizations rather than relying on occasional workshops. 👉 AI is transforming future prototyping by accelerating the process and providing a larger perspective for creative explorations. 👉 To stay ahead of disruption through continuous improvement, it’s important for organizations also to involve diverse perspectives. 👉 Design Fiction can go beyond product and service prototypes to also reimagine organizations themselves. Topics /chapters (00:00) Quote (00:53) Guest Introduction (02:17) Introduction to Design Fiction (06:12) Changes of Design Fiction over the decades (10:56) Methods in deploying Design Fiction (15:36) Being “Diagetic” (18:27) Use Cases, Competitive Advantage, and Motivations for Design Fiction (21:03) Operationalizing Design Fiction Capabilities (27:05) What’s the hard part in adopting Design Fiction (30:56) AI in Design Fiction (37:09) The Implications of Design Fiction (41:52) Future of Design Fiction (45:00) Breadcrumbs and Suggestions Remember that you can always find transcripts and key highlights of the episode on our website: https://www.boundaryless.io/podcast/Girardin -Nova Episode recorded on Oct 01, 2024 Get in touch with Boundaryless: Find out more about the show and the research at Boundaryless at https://boundaryless.io/resources/podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/boundaryless_ Website: https://boundaryless.io/contacts LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/boundaryless-pdt-3eo Music Music from Liosound / Walter Mobilio. Find his portfolio here: https://blss.io/Podcast-Music

Philippe De Ridder, co-founder and CEO of Boards of Innovation joins us for a conversation on the Autonomous Age and the Age of Creative AI. In this episode, he discusses his popular opinions on how AI will enable unprecedented productivity gains across industries and impact all business arenas, starting from knowledge work. He also shares his perspectives on the fusion of AI and human creativity and how organizations can leverage it to redefine workflows, product development, customer research and overall business strategies. We explore how yesterday’s creator will become tomorrow’s curator and why it is essential always to keep humans at the core -- especially with AI innovation. As a popular innovation consultant, Philippe is a veteran who has worked with both Fortune 500 companies and agile startups, helping them craft bold strategies for the future. In the episode, he challenges us to think about how innovation, often heralded as a core human endeavor, is increasingly being automated. From using AI to generate product ideas to testing them with synthetic consumers, he highlights the shift towards real-time innovation and its impact on markets and organizations. Talking about how AI is reshaping decision-making in innovation and across various business functions, he highlights the importance of adopting a "future-back" approach, where companies envision their role in a radically changed world and work backward to integrate necessary capabilities today. As leaders face several societal implications and tough decisions due to the increasing integration of AI across the organization, this episode can serve as a backbone upon which they can strategize. Tune in, as this episode will stretch your idea of what AI can achieve already today in your organization. Simply mind blowing. Key Highlights 👉 Innovation, often considered a highly human-driven process, can now be automated mainly with AI, from generating product ideas to testing them with synthetic consumers in real-time. 👉 AI-driven tools enable rapid product development, drastically reducing timelines from months to minutes, allowing organizations to innovate continuously. 👉 In the future, leadership will need to navigate a world where not just teams but even products operate autonomously, requiring a shift in how control and strategy are managed. 👉 Organizational structures must evolve, as traditional, siloed departments will struggle to adapt to a world where processes and decisions happen almost instantly. 👉 The role of humans is shifting from creators to curators, as AI becomes more involved in decision-making. 👉 As AI revolutionizes business functions, companies must move beyond efficiency gains and focus on reimagining their workflows and operating models from the ground up. Topics /chapters (00:00) Title - intro (00:58) Philippe De Ridder Introduction (02:14) Can Innovation be automated? (11:23) AI in Qualitative Research (14:28) Autonomous AI integrating in Organizations (22:19) AI Systems guiding Organizational Strategy (33:25) Autonomous Functions and the Age of Abundance (38:23) Consumer Participation in Autonomous Products (41:55) Socio-Technical Impact (47:54) Perception of Value Remember that you can always find transcripts and key highlights of the episode on our website: https://www.boundaryless.io/podcast/ridder-philippe Episode recorded on Sep 12, 2024 Get in touch with Boundaryless: Find out more about the show and the research at Boundaryless at ⁠https://boundaryless.io/resources/podcast⁠ Twitter: ⁠https://twitter.com/boundaryless_⁠ Website: ⁠https://boundaryless.io/contacts⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/company/boundaryless-pdt-3eo⁠ Music Music from Liosound / Walter Mobilio. Find his portfolio here: ⁠https://blss.io/Podcast-Music

John Cutler, a veteran thought leader and practitioner in product management, joins us for the first episode of Season 6 of the Boundaryless Conversations podcast. John is popularly known for his work on product development, collaboration, and systems thinking, and has worked with some of the most advanced product-centric organizations like Toast, Amplitude, and Zendesk. Based on his wealth of experience, John runs a thought-provoking newsletter, “The Beautiful Mess”, where he shares deep insights and revolutionary ideas in product and organizational development. During this podcast, we touched on how a founder’s belief systems shape product strategies and organizational structures, the differences between single-product versus multi-product companies, and how it’s important to consider the various frames through which one designs an organization’s dynamics. John also covers the implications of rapid growth versus maturity in organizations and how technology, particularly AI, is reshaping product and organizational thinking. Throughout the conversation listeners will also get some special nuggets on what he looks for, when he first meets with leaders and entrepreneurs and this shapes the work in the related organizational context. This episode - one of the best ones yet - is full of insights on the challenges faced by organizations as they scale, and it’s a precious reminder to avoid being elitist in driving organizational change. Tune in for a rich discussion and don’t miss out on the shifting paradigms in organizational structure and product leadership. Key Highlights 👉 Successful product management requires navigating diverse leadership belief systems and adapting to organizational messiness. 👉 In organizational design, we often get stuck in certain perspectives, such as treating teams like architecture. To build a better organization, it’s crucial to challenge these and explore different frames—such as the political or community dynamics. 👉During rapid growth, efficiency often takes a backseat to speed. As companies plateau, introducing standardization and modularization becomes essential for achieving agility. 👉AI can remove cognitive limitations, enabling teams to recontextualize data and serve customers in a more personalized manner, thus breaking traditional barriers in product management. 👉Autonomy must come with accountability to ensure teams remain aligned with organizational goals. 👉In B2B SaaS companies, it's important to shift from viewing individual features as separate products and understand that the entire company is the product. Topics /chapters (00:00) Understanding why the Company is the Product - Intro (00:40) The Beautiful Mess (01:57) Onboarding Entrepreneurs (11:15) Managing Organizational Messiness (23:09) Alignment in a broad portfolio (30:25) Where do you start designing an organization? (39:56) Modulating a customer-centric approach (44:09) Tech Impact on Organizational Design (50:53) Breadcrumbs and Suggestions Remember that you can always find transcripts and key highlights of the episode on our website: https://www.boundaryless.io/podcast/cutler-john Episode recorded on Sep 6, 2024 Get in touch with Boundaryless: Find out more about the show and the research at Boundaryless at ⁠https://boundaryless.io/resources/podcast⁠ Twitter: ⁠https://twitter.com/boundaryless_⁠ Website: ⁠https://boundaryless.io/contacts⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/company/boundaryless-pdt-3eo⁠ Music Music from Liosound / Walter Mobilio. Find his portfolio here: ⁠https://blss.io/Podcast-Music

We want to invite you to listen to our show, the Boundaryless Conversations Podcast, on its upcoming Season 6. On this podcast, tech insights meet deep dives into geopolitics, culture, and policymaking, exploring the fabric of tomorrow's world. Here you can listen to stories from people at the forefront of innovative product and platform development and learn about building resilient and adaptive organizations that can stay ahead through change. The Boundaryless Conversations Podcast will help you stay informed, avoid echo chambers, and be the change-maker in your organization. The new series of the podcast is coming up on October 1st. Subscribe to our channel on Youtube  @Boundaryless-pdt-3eo  and drop us a review In the meantime, remember to think Boundaryless!

We reviewed all the 20 episodes from Season 5, and shared some much needed look back and key highlights. While the learnings are an abundant treasure trove, we handpicked a few and categorized them into 4 sections:  Dystopian aspects of current socio-technological trends with Sangeet Paul Choudary, James Currier, John Robb  and Jeremiah Owyang Visions that resist the dominance of powerful technological forces with Alex Komoroske, Kelly Sarabyn and Scott Brinker, Jesse Walden , Jason Fried and Arvind Gupta Doctrine and organizing for a multiplicity of teams and products with Craig Strong, Teresa Torres, Charles Betz, Susanne Kaiser and Cliff Berg Visionary perspectives that think beyond the rules and push boundaries with Yolanda Martin, João Rosa and Trond Hjorteland, Indy Johar, Milica Begovic and Giulio Quaggiotto, Mark Lambertz and Amber Case This wrap-up is a quick look back into what happened all season, and will give you a peek what to expect for the next one. We hope that these episodes have brought you value in re-imagining ecosystems as you know it, and trust that you will continue to support us in the seasons to come. Topics /chapters (00:00) Season 5 Wrap-Up - Intro (00:43) Dystopian aspects of current socio-technological trends (05:11) Visions that resist the dominance of powerful technological forces (10:52) Doctrine and organizing for a multiplicity of teams and products (15:41) Visionary perspectives that think beyond the rules and push boundaries (22:50) What's Next: Embrace a Boundaryless Future Remember that you can always find transcripts and key highlights of the episode on our website: https://www.boundaryless.io/podcast/season5-wrap-up Get in touch with Boundaryless: Find out more about the show and the research at Boundaryless at https://boundaryless.io/resources/podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/boundaryless_ Website: https://boundaryless.io/contacts LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/boundaryless-pdt-3eo Music Music from Liosound / Walter Mobilio. Find his portfolio here: https://blss.io/Podcast-Music

We’re back at the Boundaryless Conversations Podcast, with an all new Season No. 5.  Join us, as we bridge the worlds of technology, geopolitics, culture, and policymaking. We take a dive deep into the fabric of tomorrow's world, sharing inspiring stories from innovative organizations leading the way in product and platform development. Learn how to build resilient, adaptable entities that thrive amidst change. Stay informed, break free from echo chambers, and become a change-maker in your organization.  Subscribe to our podcasts on your favorite podcasting platforms, and help us shape a richer, more democratic dialogue about the future of organizing.  Explore our vision at boundaryless.io as we bring to you - Platform and Ecosystems, from the edge to the core. For more information: https://boundaryless.io. Get in touch with Boundaryless: Twitter: https://twitter.com/boundaryless_ Website: https://boundaryless.io/contacts LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/boundaryless-pdt-3eo Music Music from Liosound / Walter Mobilio. Find his portfolio here: https://blss.io/Podcast-Music

Most software architects represent the environment in a very static way, and from that static representation, produce static software. As a result, the software structure they create is like a picture of a picture…used to describe what is actually a movie. This problem, rooted in a mechanistic worldview, is where Barry O'Reilly’s Residuality Theory was born. Residuality Theory - in very few words - is a method of designing software architectures inspired by how the most talented architects do it: starting from the stress conditions that the system could eventually face as it operates. Barry O'Reilly is a software architect with 25 years of experience in the IT industry. He has held leading roles at global software companies, has spent many years educating architects, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Complexity Science and Software Engineering at The Open University. Residuality theory looks at the world not as a bunch of static things or still pictures, but as a constantly moving set of processes which we can't really see and grasp. It requires designers to move away from a static view of the system. By letting the architecture design be inspired by its “stressors,” O'Reilly believes that not only can we design more resilient systems but also more efficient ones. In this episode, Barry also describes the philosophical background behind the theory and why Residuality can be a viable approach to designing organizations too. Remember that you can always find transcripts and key highlights of the episode on our website: https://boundaryless.io/podcast/barry-oreilly Key Highlights 👉 Static representation of reality as a practice of software architecture is embedded in Western philosophy and worldview. 👉 Software engineers should start asking themselves: “What is the underlying philosophy behind what I do and the frameworks that I use?” 👉 Residuality is a way to look at the world as a constantly shifting, moving set of processes that we can't really see and grasp. 👉 The residue is what remains from the system after it breaks down: it's the leftover of the system. And those leftovers will define the future of the software system. 👉 Criticality as an indication of the system’s ability to function across a wide range of attractors, which we may or may not even know about. 👉 It is known that software performing well in its environment is modular, but how to make structured decisions around such modularity remains unknown. 👉 The impossibility to separate organizational design from software architecture. Topics (Chapters) (00:00) Barry’s quote (00:59) Introduction (02:12) What residuality theory is (12:59) Residuality: philosophical background (18:24) Residuality: from software to organizations (27:01) Residuality and microservices: is a match possible? (36:13) Is residuality fit for the society we’re living in, or is it a next generation’s thing? (43:03) How to (easily) adopt a residuality approach (48:48) Barry’s breadcrumbs To find out more about Barry’s work: Twitter: https://twitter.com/technologytulip LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/barry-o-reilly-b924657 Website: https://www.blacktulip.se Other references and mentions: Nassim Nicholas Taleb: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassim_Nicholas_Taleb Antifragile (book): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifragile_(book) NK model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NK_model Transcendental idealism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_idealism Post-structuralism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-structuralism The Biological Reality of Organizing - with Alicia Juarrero: https://www.boundaryless.io/podcast/alicia-juarrero Bezos’ famous API mandate: https://nordicapis.com/the-bezos-api-mandate-amazons-manifesto-for-externalization/ Characteristics of decision-making during coding: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303515570_Characteristics_of_decision-making_during_coding Promise Theory. Principles and Applications: http://markburgess.org/pr

In this podcast, we dive into the shift towards a more decentralized and organic approach to city planning with Joni Baboci, an architect, planner, and urban enthusiast. We discuss how the modernist paradigm of deconstructing everything into individual parts and putting them back together linearly is becoming less relevant. Instead, we see a shift towards a more organic, bottom-up approach that looks at the city as a complex and multi-layered system. Joni Baboci is the founder of Layer, a spatial orchestration platform that empowers teams to govern through tactics and patterns while leveraging machine learning and artificial intelligence. He has previously served as the General Director of Planning and Urban Development for the City of Tirana and the director of Atelier Albania, a structure of the Albanian government dealing with national and regional strategic planning. Joni has executed planning, design, and development projects at different scales at the national, regional, and local levels. Joni shares his insights on how technological advancements such as AI and blockchain are enabling bottom-up processes in planning and thinking about cities. We also delve into the challenges of making these ideas practical and building a process to make them a reality. Joni highlights the importance of reinventing physical production through local value loops and incentivizing the interconnection between urban and rural landscapes. We also discuss how DAOs and blockchain technology can improve local governance and participation, and how cities can invest in citizen-based entrepreneurship that lets them decide how to perform a job or access a service rather than relying on a top-down approach. Join us as we explore the potential of a more decentralized and organic approach to city planning with Joni Baboci. Remember that you can always find transcripts and key highlights of the episode on our website: https://boundaryless.io/podcast/joni-baboci Key Highlights 👉 The static, modernist way of thinking and planning cities is changing. 👉 Looking at cities through a “pattern language”: from communities to subcultures to regions. 👉 Bureaucracy can help to make sure things do not move too fast. 👉 The physical city won’t be replaced by a virtual city or a network state any time soon. 👉 New technologies make it possible to scale governance both on a technical and geographical level. 👉 Communities should be able to make small bets on things that matter to them. Topics (Chapters) (00:00) Joni Baboci quote (00:47) Joni Baboci introduction (02:13) A Paradigm Shift Towards Humility in Organizing Cities and Space (05:56) The Shift Towards Decentralized and Organic City Planning (10:57) The Role of Cities in the Modern World: Cities as Labor Markets and More (18:15) Exploring the Pros and Cons of Network Cities: Coexisting with Physical Cities (23:13) The Future of Cities and the Interconnection between Urban and Rural Landscapes (30:55) Using DAOs and Blockchain to Improve Local Governance and Participation (40:41) City and Citizen Entrepreneurship for Bottom-up Development (47:15) Joni Baboci's breadcrumbs To find out more about Joni’s work: Twitter: https://twitter.com/dbaboci LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonibaboci Website: https://joni.baboci.net Other references and mentions: Layer: https://getlayer.xyz Joni’s newsletter: https://thinkthinkthink.substack.com METABOLISM OF ALBANIA | FABRICations: https://www.fabrications.nl/portfolio-item/metabolismofalbania-2 The Deeper Order of Cities: https://thesideview.co/journal/the-deeper-order-of-cities Eyes on the Street: The Life of Jane Jacobs: https://www.amazon.com/Eyes-Street-Life-Jane-Jacobs/dp/0345803337 Remote bureaucracy by Dror Poleg: https://www.drorpoleg.com/remote-bureaucracy and https://medium.com/block-science/disambiguating-autonomy-ca84ac87a0bf Center for International Development | Harvard Kennedy School: https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/cid

Alberto Brandolini joins the podcast as a sparring partner in our exploration of one of the most “burning” issues in our research: the intrinsic links between language, software, and organizational design. We explore the role of domain-driven design and, more generally, the role of visualization and context mapping in the process we call "ontological convergence"—how we agree on standards, converge on using common models, and build common tools, protocols, and infrastructures. Alberto, EventStorming creator, Domain-Driven Design (DDD) legend, and unconventional entrepreneur, is also famous for the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle, aka Brandolini’s law. He proudly runs Avanscoperta, a hub for inventing, promoting, and spreading new ideas around software development. Alberto is also a frequent speaker at conferences and events and an international trainer with more than ten years of experience. During the chat, we explore the ways software drives the adoption of common models and languages, and how the boundaries between technology and business, between one team and another, and even between organizations themselves, are blurring. Alberto observes that the more distributed an organization is, the more having clean, well-visualized “bounded contexts” becomes a key factor in effectiveness and success. Defining components and modules reduces the need to collectively agree on everything—a heavily underestimated cost of organizing. Remember that you can always find transcripts and key highlights of the episode on our website: https://boundaryless.io/podcast/alberto-brandolini Key Highlights 👉 How ubiquitous can language be. 👉 The best way to speed up reaching agreement? Visualizing instead of talking. 👉 Most no-code and low-code approaches are designed around a paradigm that is antithetic to domain-driven design. 👉 Domain-driven design suggests being aware of the cost of your architectural decisions and the evolution of these forces over time. 👉 When the quality of a component makes it an obvious choice, it’s a good way to create standards. 👉 The hardest part for remote-first organizations is finding a way to make distributed decisions on critical issues. Topics (Chapters) (00:00) Alberto Brandolini quote (00:56) Alberto Brandolini introduction (01:33) What domain-driven design is (16:14) The cost-benefit of agreeing (24:05) Domain-driven design approach in complex environments (28:19) How no-code and low-code systems relate to Domain-Driven Design (38:28) The role of Domain-Driven Design in driving standards into markets and ecosystems (48:22) Talent useful for a company like Avanscoperta (51:24) Alberto Brandolini's breadcrumbs To find out more about Alberto’s work: Twitter: https://twitter.com/ziobrando LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brando Website: https://www.avanscoperta.it Other references and mentions: Brandolini's law (Bullshit Asymmetry Principle): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law EventStorming: https://www.eventstorming.com Developing the ubiquitous language: https://thedomaindrivendesign.io/developing-the-ubiquitous-language The Conformist pattern: https://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2009/07/04/domain-driven-design-conformist Alberto’s suggested breadcrumbs (things listeners should check out): Domain-Driven Design Distilled: https://www.informit.com/store/domain-driven-design-distilled-9780134434421 Implementing Domain-Driven Design (Red Book): https://www.amazon.com/Implementing-Domain-Driven-Design-Vaughn-Vernon/dp/0321834577 Introducing EventStorming (The Book): https://www.eventstorming.com/book David Sibbet: https://davidsibbet.com Dave Gray: http://www.xplaner.com Domain-Driven Design Crew · GitHub: https://github.com/ddd-crew Avanscoperta blog: https://blog.avanscoperta.it Recorded on 09 January 2023. Get in touch with Boundaryless: Find out more about the show and the research at Boundaryless at https://boundaryless.io/resources/podcast

In this episode, we are joined by Sir Geoff Mulgan to explore the potential of an emergent discipline of organizational architecture, where the diversity of organizational models and their features are studied and assessed in a more robust and systematic way—similar to the field of building architecture. Sir Geoff Mulgan CBE is a Professor of Collective Intelligence, Public Policy, and Social Innovation at University College London (UCL). Prior to his current position, he served as the Chief Executive of Nesta, the UK's innovation foundation, from 2011 to 2019. His primary focus is on improving government functionality and creating and implementing good ideas. Recently, he has been developing ideas related to shared intelligence, wisdom, science policy, social science, and systems, with a sideline in imagination. His work revolves around not only what to change but also how to do it—from big-picture designs to the more practical aspects. His latest book is 'Another World is Possible - How to re-ignite radical political imagination,' about new ways to imagine the future in politics and social organization. Geoff believes that—given the complexity of organizations, which rely on a combination of monetary exchanges, coercion, love, and care to operate—reducing them to a single monolithic model is not sufficient. Instead, we need a diversity of models that can evolve with time and adapt to changing needs. Such an approach, Mulgan thinks, is even more significant as we need to tackle the profound 21st-century transitions related to energy, climate, health, and other areas. Most likely, we’ll need new types of institutions to face these transformational challenges—not limited by old corporate models and legal and regulatory frameworks. Key Highlights 👉 Reducing organizations to a matter of “only” contracts is too simplistic. 👉 Complex organizations use a mix of monetary exchanges, coercion, love, and care to govern. 👉 Organizational design should be a discipline more like physical architecture. 👉 We need new institutions that can embrace outside-in strategies and be multi-center and modular. 👉 “Mesh” models of organizing combine vertical and horizontal structures and flows both inside organizations and outside of them. 👉 Old corporate models and legal and regulatory frameworks currently prevent open data flows and transparency. 👉 A co-evolution of new organizational forms mixing collective and artificial intelligence is foreseeable in the next decade. Topics (Chapters) (00:00) Geoff Mulgan's quote (00:59) Geoff Mulgan introduction (02:07) The reason behind the paper "Organizational Architecture - Ideas for an Emergent Discipline" (07:03) Elements of organizational architecture theory (12:12) The enablers and the forces to reorganize society (24:13) Government as a platform (38:07) Geoff Mulgan's breadcrumbs Remember that you can always find transcripts and key highlights of the episode on our website: https://boundaryless.io/podcast/geoff-mulgan To find out more about Geoff’s work: Twitter: https://twitter.com/geoffmulgan LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sir-geoff-mulgan-aa1079187 Website: https://www.geoffmulgan.com Other references and mentions: Organizational architecture: Ideas for an emergent discipline (paper): https://www.geoffmulgan.com/post/mesh-organisational-archicture-theory Learndirect: https://www.learndirect.com Another World is Possible - How to re-ignite radical political imagination (book): https://www.geoffmulgan.com/another-world-is-possible Warm Data Institute: https://batesoninstitute.org/warm-data Data Meditations: https://www.he-r.it/project/data-meditations Geoff’s suggested breadcrumbs (things listeners should check out): Museum of the Future: https://museumofthefuture.ae/en Recorded on 13 January 2023. Get in touch with Boundaryless: Find out more about the show and the research at Boundaryless at https://boundaryless.io/resources/podcast

Scott Brinker takes us on a journey exploring Hubspot’s fascinating platform strategy, where competitive overlaps between Hubspot’s own hubs and products and third-party developers in the ecosystem are treated as a good thing, and where recognizing and serving the “joint customer need” is the real focus. Scott is VP Platform Ecosystem at HubSpot, helping to grow and nurture the company's community of technology partners. He writes the chiefmartec.com blog, covering marketing technology management, and is the author of the best-selling book “Hacking Marketing”. Previously, he was the co-founder and CTO of Ion Interactive. He holds degrees in computer science from Columbia University and Harvard University and an MBA from MIT. Serving multiple niche customer needs with modular platforms: is this possible? Hubspot’s success seems to confirm. With Scott, we take a closer look at Hubspot's approach to figuring out what makes the collaboration between a platform and its ecosystem work. We see what makes a product portfolio and an organizational structure more keen to meet complex and evolving customer needs through collaboration, all while keeping everything connected as one boundaryless ecosystem. Key Highlights 👉 How the practice of marketing has evolved with technology in the last decades. 👉 Even if so much software is now in the cloud, customization (vs pre-packaging) is still only in the beginning. 👉 Serving joint customer needs across products. 👉 Structuring modularity inside the organization. 👉 Competitive overlaps in the ecosystem is a good thing. 👉 Building legitimacy and trust in the ecosystem requires helping partners to evolve. Topics (Chapters) (00:00) Scott Brinker's quote (00:54) Introducing Scott Brinker (02:33) How marketing has changed and its intersection with technology (09:27) Evolution around SaaS and the fact that we live in an ecosystem world (12:38) Approaching product design and development with customer needs and extensibility points in mind (18:24) Balancing coherence and diversity in the “tool chain” (35:08) Internal and external strategy - stability and change (41:07) Boundaries are never static between platforms and partners (44:47) Commodities become part of the core platform (51:58) Scott Brinker's breadcrumbs Remember that you can always find transcripts and key highlights of the episode on our website: https://boundaryless.io/podcast/scott-brinker To find out more about Scott’s work: - Twitter: https://twitter.com/chiefmartec - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sjbrinker - Website: https://chiefmartec.com Other references and mentions: - HubSpot: https://ecosystem.hubspot.com - Wardley mapping: https://learnwardleymapping.com/introduction Scott’s suggested breadcrumbs (things listeners should check out): - Hacking Marketing: Agile Practices to Make Marketing Smarter, Faster, and More Innovative: https://www.amazon.com/Hacking-Marketing-Practices-Smarter-Innovative/dp/1119183170 - Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifragile_(book) Recorded on 13 January 2023. Get in touch with Boundaryless: Find out more about the show and the research at Boundaryless at https://boundaryless.io/resources/podcast - Twitter: https://twitter.com/boundaryless_ - Website: https://boundaryless.io/contacts - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/boundaryless-pdt-3eo Music Music from Liosound / Walter Mobilio. Find his portfolio here: https://blss.io/Podcast-Music

Jocelynn Pearl is a biotech scientist, podcaster, and company builder. She co-founded LabDAO, a web3 marketplace for life science research, and curates The DeSci Wiki, which tracks projects and DAOs in the web3 x science sector. She is also the host of the Lady Scientist Podcast and UltraRare The Podcast, a show featuring leaders in DeSci. DeSci, or Decentralized Science (like the acronym DeFi for decentralized finance), expands some of the principles of blockchain technology and distributed ownership to science. The impact is potentially huge in many aspects: science communities' rules, funding and incentive structures, daily work habits, intellectual property rights, etc. Thanks to our conversation with Jocelynn, we discover the potential of DeSci by looking into the organizational aspects of decentralized communities and exploring which science branches may benefit most from its potential. Finally, Jocelynn also mentions how companies are evolving the DeSci vertical, probably providing one of the best use cases of Web3 so far. Key Highlights 👉 DeSci - one of the best use cases for Web3 so far. 👉 Democratization and new paths to independent funding. 👉 Fixing broken incentive structures in research. 👉 Examining potential drawbacks and limits of less institutionalized science. 👉 Impacts of DeSci over science institutions. 👉 The emergence of broader collaborations and types of scientists. Topics (Chapters) (00:00) Jocelynn Pearl’s opening quote (00:42) Introducing Jocelynn Pearl and this episode topic (02:35) What decentralized science is (07:01) Which major institutions will be transformed by DeSci? (10:51) The DeSci impact in the short term (17:34) Funding and structures of science: how they currently work (23:00) Everything is “tokenizable”? (25:39) Will there be freelance scientists? (31:17) What about tools? (35:02) Collaboration and ontological convergence (39:34) Beyond healthcare (40:44) Jocelynn Pearl’s next projects (41:38) Jocelynn Pearl’s breadcrumbs Remember that you can always find transcripts and key highlights of the episode on our website: https://boundaryless.io/podcast/jocelynn-pearl To find out more about Jocelynn’s work: - Twitter: https://twitter.com/jocelynnpearl - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jocelynnpearlphd - Website: https://www.jocelynnpearl.com - UltraRare The Podcast: https://rss.com/podcasts/ultrarare - Lady Scientist Podcast: https://rss.com/podcasts/ladyscientistpodcast Other references and mentions: - LabDAO (on Discord): https://discord.com/invite/labdao - DeSci Wiki: DeSci Wiki - Reinventing Organizations: https://www.reinventingorganizations.com - talentDAO: https://www.talentdao.io - Smart Contract Research Forum: https://www.smartcontractresearch.org - Gassing the Miracle Machine, Not Boring: https://www.notboring.co/p/gassing-the-miracle-machine - Crowd Funded Cures: https://crowdfundedcures.org - Flagship Pioneering: https://www.flagshippioneering.com - NFX Bio: https://www.nfx.com/post/launching-nfx-bio - Unbundling Work from Employment - Li Jin: https://li.substack.com/p/unbundling-work-from-employment - Scispot: https://www.scispot.com - Benchling: https://www.benchling.com - Science Exchange: https://ww2.scienceexchange.com/s Jocelynn’s suggested breadcrumbs (things listeners should check out): - Reinventing Discovery - Michael A. Nielsen: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691202846/reinventing-discovery - Working in Public - Nadia Eghbal: https://press.stripe.com/working-in-public Recorded on 18 October 2022. Get in touch with Boundaryless: Find out more about the show and the research at Boundaryless at https://boundaryless.io/resources/podcast - Twitter: https://twitter.com/boundaryless_ - Website: https://boundaryless.io/contacts - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/boundaryless-pdt-3eo Music Music from Liosound / Walter Mobilio. Find his portfolio here: https://blss.io/Podcast-Music

In this episode, we talked to Tom Davenport and Laks Srinivasan from the Return on AI Institute (ROAI) about how AI is empowering and challenging organizational models worldwide, and how the platform business model is often based on AI capabilities in the background. Tom is a world-renowned thought leader and author on AI. He is the President’s Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management at Babson College, as well as a fellow at the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, a visiting professor at Oxford's Saïd Business School, and the Chairman of ROAI. Laks is a data and analytics executive with more than 15 years of experience in management, entrepreneurship, and innovation roles to help clients create measurable value from AI. He is a co-founder and Managing Director at ROAI and former CEO of Opera Solutions (now ElectrifAI), an applied AI solutions company with 500+ employees globally, and the winner of the Netflix Prize and several Kaggle AI competitions. Tom and Laks explore with us how different forms of artificial intelligence might transform product teams at companies around the globe. In the second part of this episode, Tom and Laks offer concrete examples of companies that have created new business models powered by AI, as well as suggestions on what traditional organizations should look at when preparing to adopt artificial intelligence. Key Highlights 👉 AI is becoming pervasive in large organizations, but many are still struggling to get meaningful value out of it. 👉 Companies that “do AI” vs (digital native) “AI companies”. 👉 Platform business models (as a form of ecosystem) are based on AI. 👉 How AI could transform product teams. 👉 The challenge with AI is multi-dimensional: involves organization, leadership, culture, data, and technology. 👉 AI replaces tasks rather than entire jobs. 👉 Strategy-by-doing applies to AI: think big, start small, fail fast, and invest where things are working. 👉 Increased awareness among executives is needed to develop their intuition around AI. Topics (Chapters) 00:00 Intro notes and welcoming of Thomas H. Davenport and Laks Srinivasan 03:16 How AI is empowering organizations or challenging organizational models 08:11 AI as a matter of doctrine in organizations: yes or no? 11:56 Platform business model (as a form of ecosystem) based on AI 17:13 How AI could transform product teams 24:50 Example of companies which have created new business models powered by AI 33:40 What should traditional organizations look at when preparing to adopt AI? 42:02 To integrate more AI into the process? Think big but start small. 50:58 Thomas and Laks’ breadcrumbs Remember that you can always find transcripts and key highlights of the episode on our website: https://boundaryless.io/podcast/tom-davenport-and-laks-srinivasan To find out more about Tom Davenport’s work: - Twitter: https://twitter.com/tdav - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davenporttom - Website: https://www.tomdavenport.com To find out more about Laks Srinivasan’s work: - Twitter: https://twitter.com/LaksSrinivasan - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laks-srinivasan - Website: https://roaiinstitute.com Other references and mentions: - Working with AI: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262047241/working-with-ai - All-in On AI: How Smart Companies Win Big with Artificial Intelligence: https://www.amazon.com/All-AI-Companies-Artificial-Intelligence-ebook/dp/B09Q6KHWVT - Ping An Group: https://group.pingan.com - CCC Intelligent Solutions: https://cccis.com - USAA: https://www.usaa.com - Amara's Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Amara#Amara's_law - The Return on AI Playbook Podcast: https://sites.libsyn.com/411860 Tom and Laks’ suggested breadcrumbs (things listeners should check out): - Being a fire volunteer for fire control or, in general, being a volunteer for something - How Generative AI Is Changing Creative Work: https://hbr.org/2022/11/how-generative-ai-is-changing-creative-work Recorded on 28 October 2022. Get in touch with Boundaryless: Find out more about the show and the research at Boundaryless at https://boundaryless.io/resources/podcast - Twitter: https://twitter.com/boundaryless_ - Website: https://boundaryless.io/contacts - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/boundaryless-pdt-3eo Music Music from Liosound / Walter Mobilio. Find his portfolio here: https://blss.io/Podcast-Music

Michael Zargham, founder and CEO of BlockScience and Board Member of the Metagov Project, shares his views on how Blockchain and other emerging technologies are making new ways of organizing possible. Yet, Michael believes that, so far, we are not fully using the potential of these affordances to create something new. Smart contracts are becoming widespread, but does the relationship between crypto and organizing stop there? What’s next? Which new “non-familiar” possibilities of design will we see unlocked in the next few years? Michael describes how systems designers will need to be humble and leave space for systems to evolve through enabling constraints. He also believes that the gap between the complexity of organizational design and transparency of decision-making is closing through “healthy DAOs,” blurring the line between those making the rules and those acting upon the rules. Michael holds a Ph.D. in systems engineering from the University of Pennsylvania where he studied optimization and control of decentralized networks. Thanks to his experience, Michael Zargham has a non-common point of view on designing beyond the machine. Remember that you can always find transcripts and key highlights of the episode on our website: boundaryless.io/podcast/michael-zargham Key Highlights 👉 How new affordances for organizing are created by Blockchain and other emerging technologies. 👉 The gap between the complexity of organizational design and how it is documented. 👉 The “Animating purpose” is core to what the organization does and why. 👉 How to design mechanisms without being mechanistic. 👉 How designers need to leave empty space and provide enabling constraints. 👉 Systems engineers as civil engineers: the civil servant ethics approach. 👉 Finances as constraints rather than goals in emerging mutualist institutions. Topics (Chapters) (00:00) Michael Zargham’s quote (00:59) Intro and Michael Zargham’s bio (02:33) New technologies, new affordances (06:04) Beyond Smart contracts: how deep is the relationship between crypto and organization? (09:03) The new “non-familiar” possibilities of designing next-generation voting public (14:41) How an organization can “use” the Conviction voting (19:55) The gap between organizational design and the documentation of the organizational design (24:23) “Animating purpose” is core to the organization and what it does (29:49) A new era of “Design as a participatory system”? (33:26) The role of the designer: risks and opportunities (40:59) The civil servant ethics approach for designers (46:18) Michael Zargham’s breadcrumbs To find out more about Michael Zargham’s work: > Twitter: https://twitter.com/mzargham > LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mczargham > Block Science: https://block.science > cadCAD: http://cadcad.org > Metagov: https://metagov.org Other references and mentions: > Gardens: https://gardensdao.eth.limo/#/home > Delphia: https://delphia.com/team > “Design as Participation” by Kevin Slavin: https://jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/design-as-participation/release/1 > Boundaryless interview with Jeff Emmett: https://youtu.be/eI6yhPdfOnE Michael’s suggested breadcrumbs (things listeners should check out): > “Mint and Burn” Podcast by Kelsie Nabben: https://www.rmit.edu.au/news/podcasts/mint-and-burn > “Mutualism” by Sara Horowitz: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/621946/mutualism-by-sara-horowitz > “Engineering a Safer World” by Nancy G. Leveson: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262533690/engineering-a-safer-world Recorded on 12 October 2022. Get in touch with Boundaryless: Find out more about the show and the research at Boundaryless at https://boundaryless.io/resources/podcast > Twitter: https://twitter.com/boundaryless_ > Website: https://boundaryless.io/contacts > LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/boundaryless-pdt-3eo Music Music from Liosound / Walter Mobilio. Find his portfolio here: https://blss.io/Podcast-Music

The guest of this episode is Joe Justice. Joe is a legend of Agile and has helped implement Agile across the world in more than 20 countries. He has led Agile practices at incredible companies like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Boeing, Tesla, Toyota, NEC, and KDDI. In the early 2010s, his passion for mechanical engineering led him to found Wikispeed, an unusual open-source car manufacturing company that pioneered the implementation of Agile practices in manufacturing. It became a global sensation and exhibited at international auto shows. With Joe, we talked about how he brought Wikispeed and its ideas to Europe over 10 years ago, touring around places and meeting people from the Ouishare network—of which both Stina and Simone have been part—during the heydays of the collaborative economy. We also widely discussed Joe’s engagement with Agile at Tesla and many of the key elements of vision and work culture at Musk’s companies. Additionally, we discussed the role of governments and how their contributions and policies can be conducive to more innovation, and how they should see themselves more as test centers for innovation pathways. This episode provides a great insider look into what it means to work in a company led by Elon Musk, double-clicking on key concepts such as modularity and cash flow, and why they are essential to rapid innovation. Key Highlights 👉 The Open Source approach to business. 👉 Maximize cash flow as part of innovation. 👉 The importance of data-driven performance in Musk companies. 👉 The benefit of 12-hour shifts. 👉 The importance of modularity to shorten innovation cycles. Topics (Chapters) 00:00 Joe Justice’s opening quote 01:13 Intro and Joe Justice’s bio 02:57 When and how WikiSpeed arrived in Europe 08:33 What we can learn from the collaboration between Wikispeed and Tesla 14:18 Agile culture vs Policies and the role of government 49:15 Modularity as an approach 59:53 Joe’s breadcrumbs 01:03:59 Conclusion Remember that you can always find transcripts and key highlights of the episode on our website: https://boundaryless.io/podcast/joe-justice To find out more about Joe’s work: > Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoeJustice > Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Joe.A.Justice > LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joejustice > Books: https://leanpub.com/u/joejustice > Classes: https://www.abi-agile.com > Agile World 2022 Keynote: "Tesla’s Secret Process for Rapid Innovation" Joe Justice: https://youtu.be/XTeZcQ9-Hr4 Other references and mentions: > Ouishare: https://www.ouishare.net > TEDxRainier - Joe Justice - WikiSpeed: https://youtu.be/x8jdx-lf2Dw > Tesla Anti-Handbook Handbook: http://www.ceconline.com/PDF/Tesla-Anti-Handbook-Handbook.pdf > DevOps: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/DevOps > Paolo Sammicheli’s books: https://paolo.sammiche.li > Joe Justice’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@JoeJustice0 Joe’s suggested breadcrumbs (things listeners should check out): > Zapp! The Lightning of Empowerment: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/22446/zapp-the-lightning-of-empowerment-by-william-byham-phd-with-jeff-cox > Commitment - a graphic novel about managing project risk: https://commitment-thebook.com > Great Courses Big History: https://www.amazon.com/Great-Courses-Big-History-Humanity/dp/B07FD45QRD > Learn anything to an extremely high level of skill: whether it’s pasta dishes or martial arts—choose anything and just go deep. Recorded on 1 Dec 2022. Get in touch with Boundaryless: Find out more about the show and the research at Boundaryless at https://boundaryless.io/resources/podcast > Twitter: https://twitter.com/boundaryless_ > Website: https://boundaryless.io/contacts > LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/boundaryless-pdt-3eo Music Music from Liosound / Walter Mobilio. Find his portfolio here: https://blss.io/Podcast-Music

According to our guest Raphael Ouzan, next year's big thing is: “cloud-based teams.” Companies are having an increasingly hard time hiring the right people to work on their most pressing problems and opportunities for development. To overcome this, Raphael founded A.Team, the world’s first cloud-team formation platform, enabling companies to form, manage, and scale external, remote teams instantly. Its TeamGraph connects thousands of highly skilled product builders in an invite-only network—empowering them to escape rigid structures to team up with companies building market-leading products. Raphael is a technologist, entrepreneur, and investor on a mission to unlock human potential with technology. Among other things, Raphael co-founded BillGuard—the antivirus for bills (acquired by Prosper), co-founded BlockNation with Apollo Mgmt CEO Marc Rowan to invest in web3, and founded ITC, a not-for-profit for global tech upskilling. A decorated officer of IDF’s tech unit, he was named 30 under 30 by Forbes, and Global Shaper by the World Economic Forum. In this episode, we dive into what “cloud-based teams” mean and analyze what perspectives such teams open up for organizations. We also reflect on the role of companies themselves: according to Raphael, we should never refer to “external teams”; instead, as entrepreneurs, we need to think more boundaryless (as we always say). Remember that you can always find transcripts and podcast notes from the episode on our website: https://boundaryless.io/podcast/raphael-ouzan/ Key Highlights 👉 Setting up high-performing teams driven by passion and freedom. 👉 When focusing on outcomes, external versus internal becomes irrelevant. 👉 The disruption of traditional employment. 👉 The Ocean’s Eleven analogy. Topics (Chapters) 00:00 Introduction: who is Raphael Ouzan 02:28 Definition of a cloud-based team 07:38 A.Team: how it works and its Business model 15:13 Insights about cloud-based teams 20:11 How A.Team guarantees that a team will work as "a real team" 24:43 On teams’ accountability 30:02 Increasing the "skin in the game" of teams 33:50 Organizational model and networks 39:55 The value of a curated network 42:36 Engaging the community 47:23 A.Team: what's next? 48:22 Raphael Ouzan's breadcrumbs To find out more about Raphael Ouzan's work: 👉 Twitter: https://twitter.com/raphaelouzan 👉 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/raphaelouzan 👉 Website: https://raphaelouzan.com Other references and mentions: 👉 A.Team website: https://www.a.team 👉 AWS Mental Model: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/enterprise-strategy/mental-models-for-your-digital-transformation 👉 Conway's law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law 👉 Utopia for “builders”: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/big-change-3-content-principles-2022-joe-lazer-lazauskas 👉 Ocean’s Eleven: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean%27s_Eleven Raphael Ouzan’s suggested breadcrumbs (things listeners should check out): 👉 Adam Grant, Think Again: https://www.amazon.com/Think-Again-Power-Knowing-What/dp/1984878107 Recorded on 8 November 2022. Get in touch with Boundaryless: Find out more about the show and the research at Boundaryless at https://boundaryless.io/resources/podcast 👉 Twitter: https://twitter.com/boundaryless_ 👉 Website: https://boundaryless.io/contacts 👉 LinkedIn:

Alicia Juarrero is founder and president of VectorAnalytica with a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Miami, where she is also currently a research associate. She is the author of the book Dynamics in Action (2008), and the upcoming Context Changes Everything (2023), both published by MIT Press. We’ve all heard about how organizations are like natural organisms, but is that really true? And if it is, how can we get inspired by nature in designing and understanding them? In this episode, we talk to Alicia about her work in complexity theory and how it applies to organizations. Alicia takes from Aristotle the image of the organization as a natural organism and unpacks the biological reality of organizing.  Parts of a natural organism, like a cell, are different from just parts of a material mass. A complex organization is a system where members and teams define themselves by their role and through interaction with other parts of the system. This has specific consequences on the hierarchy and management of teams embedded in various contextual layers. In these complex organizations, boundaries and enabling constraints have a role to steer direction, and managers should act as catalysts, not applying coercive forces. Remember that you can always find the full episode and transcript on our website: https://boundaryless.io/podcast/alicia-juarrero/ Key Highlights 👉 The cellular-based ecosystemic organization is not governed by hierarchy and external forces. 👉 “Life and death” of the components of an organization make it dynamic and adaptable. 👉 Boundaries in biological reality are permeable interfaces, not mechanistic edges. Topics (Chapters) 00:03:04 Organization as “organism” 00:09:45 Hierarchy in social organizations 00:12:25 Three levels we have to consider when thinking of a social organization 00:20:29 How to set goals in a complex organization? 00:36:35 The role of enabling constraints 00:44:38 Alicia’s Breadcrumbs To find out more about Alicia Juarrero’s work: 👉 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alicia-juarrero-93b3a25/ 👉 Website: https://www.vectoranalytica.com/ Other References and Mentions: 👉 Dynamics in Action (2002) - Alicia Juarrero: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262600477/dynamics-in-action/ 👉 The Self-Organization of Intentional Action: https://www.cairn.info/revue-internationale-de-philosophie-2004-2-page-189.htm 👉 Constraints that Enable Innovation - Alicia Juarrero: https://vimeo.com/128934608 Alicia’s Suggested Breadcrumbs (Things Listeners Should Check Out): 👉 "Boundaries, hierarchies and networks in complex systems" - Paul Cilliers: https://blogs.cim.warwick.ac.uk/complexity/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2014/02/Cilliers-2001-Boundaries-Hierarchies-and-Networks.pdf 👉 The Theory of Graceful Extensibility: Basic Rules that Govern Adaptive Systems - David D Woods: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327427067_The_Theory_of_Graceful_Extensibility_Basic_rules_that_govern_adaptive_systems Recorded on 7 October 2022. Get in touch with Boundaryless: Find out more about the show and the research at Boundaryless at https://boundaryless.io/resources/podcast/ 👉 Twitter: https://twitter.com/boundaryless_ 👉 Website: https://boundaryless.io/contacts 👉 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/boundaryless-pdt-3eo/ Music Music from Liosound / Walter Mobilio. Find his portfolio here: https://blss.io/Podcast-Music

Casey Winters is a growth advisor and operator who helps companies scale. Casey is a legend of product growth and marketplaces, and, among many other things, he’s an advisor and operator that helps companies address the problem of scale. Most recently, Casey was the Chief Product Officer at Eventbrite. Before that, he had extensive experience working for and advising companies such as Grubhub, Pinterest, Airbnb, Canva, Thumbtack, Reddit, Hipcamp, Faire, and many others. Casey is also a partner at Reforge, one of the leading growth programs available. Besides sharing real-world experiences from his career, in this episode, Casey provides insights about how companies can leverage their organizational model as a growth lever. Casey explains how the growth model is a unique aspect of each company and highlights the importance of reducing friction to allow growth to flow more strongly. We also discuss how the responsibility for driving network effects often shifts from local teams to more centralized functions over time, and how leaders should think about autonomy when managing growth and product teams. Remember that you can always find transcripts and key highlights of the episode on our website: https://boundaryless.io/podcast/casey-winters/ Key Highlights of the Conversation 👉 The organizational structure can change according to strategy, especially at the early stage of a business. 👉 Growth model: what it is and the structures you need around it. 👉 OKRs and creative spaces: how should a leader balance these in a team? 👉 How can marketing and growth teams work together? 👉 Brand vs. performance: how a startup should think about it. To find out more about Casey’s work: 👉 Twitter: https://twitter.com/onecaseman 👉 Website: https://caseyaccidental.com/ 👉 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caseywinters/ Other References and Mentions: 👉 The Types of Product Team Organizational Structures | Casey Accidental: https://caseyaccidental.com/product-organizational-structures/ 👉 Conway's law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law 👉 The Autonomy Spectrum: https://caseyaccidental.com/the-autonomy-spectrum 👉 Dynamic creative optimization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_creative_optimization 👉 Reforge teaching: https://www.reforge.com/advanced-growth-strategy-series Casey’s Suggested Breadcrumbs (Things Listeners Should Check Out): 👉 Severant - Kuedo: https://kuedo.bandcamp.com/album/severant-2022-edition 👉 Infinite Window - Kuedo: https://kuedo.bandcamp.com/album/infinite-window Recorded on 17 October 2022. Get in Touch with Boundaryless: Find out more about the show and the research at Boundaryless at https://boundaryless.io/resources/podcast/ 👉 Twitter: https://twitter.com/boundaryless_ 👉 Website: https://boundaryless.io/contacts/ 👉 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/boundaryless-pdt-3eo/ Music Music from Liosound / Walter Mobilio. Find his portfolio here: https://blss.io/Podcast-Music

Bonnitta Roy is a pioneer in education. She’s the founder of Alderlore Insight Center, the POP-UP School, and C-LABS. She teaches insight practices for individuals developing meta-cognitive skills (ed: thinking about thinking) and hosts collective insight retreats for groups interested in breaking away from typical limiting patterns of thought. In addition, she teaches a master’s course in consciousness studies and transpersonal psychology at the Graduate Institute. As an educator, Bonnitta Roy is focused on what she defines as Post Formal Actors (PFA): people who have a strong intuition toward post-formal thinking without necessarily being sophisticated thinkers (yet) and who see formal rules as optional. According to Bonnitta, this phenomenon occurs in different settings, for example, when students start to see that their teachers don’t hold educational authority. Without proper pedagogical support to become more sophisticated thinkers, however, post-formal actors can be seen only as "deviants" rather than as a resource. On the other hand, because of their skills, post-formal actors can provide a new perspective and a new way to see and do things, embracing the challenges we face. They can, as Bonnitta says, "hedge against social collapse." Remember that you can always find transcripts and key highlights of the episode on our website: https://boundaryless.io/podcast/bonnitta-roy/ Key Highlights from the Conversation 👉 Post formal actors (PFA): how this definition was born. 👉 The mismatch between the skills we learn in school and what we really need in life. 👉 PFA as a positive force for the world and for organizations. 👉 Tokenization of value and what it means for organizing. 👉 The importance of stability in a system. 👉 Ontological design and modernity as "defuturing." To find out more about Bonnitta Roy’s work: 👉 Twitter: https://twitter.com/bonnittaroy 👉 Website: https://bonnittaroy.medium.com/ 👉 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bonnittaroy/ Other References and Mentions: 👉 Alderlore Insight Center: https://alderloreinsightcenter.com/ 👉 POP-UP School: https://bonnittaroy.substack.com/ 👉 C-LABS: https://www.c-labs.net/ 👉 The Graduate Institute: https://learn.edu/ 👉 The episode of Daily of the Month Podcast where Bonnitta and Simone first explored a convergence around Post-Formal actors: https://www.agile-podcast.de/blog/folge-29-21st-century-human-thesis/ 👉 Post Formal Thought: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postformal_thought 👉 Robert Kegan’s works: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kegan#In_Over_Our_Heads 👉 Developmental stage theories: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developmental_stage_theories 👉 Bayo Akomolafe: https://www.bayoakomolafe.net/about 👉 Nora Bateson episode: https://boundaryless.io/podcast/nora-bateson/ 👉 The Manifesto of Ontological Design: https://medium.datadriveninvestor.com/the-manifesto-of-ontological-design-7fdb19169107 Bonitta’s Suggested Breadcrumbs (Things Listeners Should Check Out): 👉 Doomer Optimism Podcast: https://www.doomeroptimism.com/ 👉 One Hundred Thousand Beating Hearts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoQWLK8-CYE 👉 The Salt of the Earth (trailer): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OivMlWXtWpY Recorded on 19 September 2022. Get in Touch with Boundaryless: Find out more about the show and the research at Boundaryless at https://boundaryless.io/resources/podcast/ 👉 Twitter: https://twitter.com/boundaryless_ 👉 Website: https://boundaryless.io/contacts/ 👉 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/boundaryless-pdt-3eo/ Music Music from Liosound / Walter Mobilio. Find his portfolio here: https://blss.io/Podcast-Music