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You should try to organize what you are working on well enough that you can be logical and make progress, but not allow it to become rote.

Just get well enough organized so that disorganization doesn’t keep you from reaching your goals.

…to succeed, maybe even to survive, in the new environment, organizations and leaders must fundamentally change.

The models of organizational success that dominated the twentieth century have their roots in the industrial revolution and, simply put, the world has changed.

…the principles that undergird [mechanized] systems remain firmly embedded in the way organizations of all types approach management and leadership.

Teams can bring a measure of adaptability to previously rigid organizations. But these performance improvements have a ceiling as long as adaptable traits are limited to the team.

…the magic of teams is a double-edged sword once organizations get big: some of the same traits that make an adaptable team great can make it incompatible with the structure it serves.

…most organizations are more concerned with how best to control information than how best to share it.

purpose affirms trust, trust affirms purpose, and together they forge individuals into a working team.

How we organize physical space says a lot about how we think people behave; but how people behave is often a byproduct of how we set up physical space.