I read about things like cross-level meetings between levels X and X+2, Elon Musk randomly grilling his engineers about the work they’re doing in the moment, or “listening tours” in which the CEO who’s accomplished a corporate takeover will travel to all the company locations and listen to the lower-level employees’ takes on corporate dysfunction and what to do about it. These seem like examples of the “sampling” you’re talking about.
I think a takeaway here is that organizational maze-fulness is entropy: you can keep it low with constant effort, but it’s always going to increase by default.
I read about things like cross-level meetings between levels X and X+2, Elon Musk randomly grilling his engineers about the work they’re doing in the moment, or “listening tours” in which the CEO who’s accomplished a corporate takeover will travel to all the company locations and listen to the lower-level employees’ takes on corporate dysfunction and what to do about it. These seem like examples of the “sampling” you’re talking about.
I think a takeaway here is that organizational maze-fulness is entropy: you can keep it low with constant effort, but it’s always going to increase by default.
Yep.