Clay Parker Jones

If you've ever been reorg'd and thought "this is bullshit," guess what?

The idea of role clarity has come up in about 80% of the conversations I've had with teams and leaders.

This weekend I built three things.

TL;DR: We lack a shared, rigorous way to assess an entire organization – most tools either miss key drivers or apply only to specific domains.

I talk a lot about the importance of clear, business-critical missions for teams.

Several years ago, we worked with a senior leadership team of a large, complex regional organization with dozens of locations and tens of thousands of employees.

The speculation about ChatGPT and generative AI's impact on the marketing organization runs in two directions.

It is possible for any traditionally structured team to 10x their output without any additional resources.

Organizations are learning machines.

Here's a throwback all the way to 2010.

I've had this article in my reader since it came out in 2020.

Disruption (in peer-reviewed journals and in patents) is on decline, and the authors don't have much of an explanation for it.

Here's some awesome new scholarship on the state of teaming.

Oh, btw: I've been focusing for the last couple years on Organization Design for Marketing Orgs.

In 1989, Elliot Jaques proposed six different, hierarchical strata of work, defined by their complexity (and the time-span of their authority).