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Shift from a 🏗️ builder's mindset of having a fixed plan to a 🌱 gardener's approach, allowing ideas to grow naturally.
Builders are limited by their own efforts, while gardeners nurture growth and direct energy where needed.
Done correctly, this method can look magical, as it involves curating and responding to emerging potential, rather than being the genius dictator micro-managing everything. Alex calls it "farming for miracles" because you are setting up the foundation to discover "magical seeds" that could have an exponential effect on growth.
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Creating structures & behavior that allows ideas and projects to grow from the bottom up is called emergence thinking.
It is a different way of approaching leadership and can often be misinterpreted as being a slacker or "weirdo". This is because traditional leaders with a concrete plan are often praised for their hard work, while emergent focused leaders are seen as inefficient.
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The most important thing to do after planting an acorn is to keep squirrels away so they don't dig it up.
As a leader it's your duty to gain enough credibility in front of management & provide air cover for your team so they to do great work.
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Strict hierarchical orgs have to deal with coordination issues (how to pick the target, focus on the target etc). A small company is analogue to a sports car, allowing for speed and fast pivots. A large company can organize itself into a team of sports cars but there would be less collaboration between teams.
Slime molds adapt and autonomously find solutions, which can boost creativity and innovation. They are not rigidly constraied by fixed job description or objectives, and can morph themselves into any shape needed. They operate with autonomy, exploration & creative problem-solving.
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LLMs & Generative AI are disrupting software development and production in general. They are a "magical duck-tape" that will lower costs and enable the everybody to produce at lower costs. So your taste as a product manager is now more important than ever.
Taste means to be able to differentiate from an LLM, given the same prompt. LLMs will produce the mediocre result, the wisdom of the crown. Your taste has to do with a unique perspective that you have the courage to put fwd.
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Strategy Salons: A collaborative, opt-in conversation environment that fosters emergence in companies.
This open forum, with no strict objectives, is often where the best insights emerge.
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Instead of making giant leaps, explore the adjacent possible, focusing on achievable actions.
This concept respects constraints, guiding realistic, impactful innovations.
Consistently making small, feasible steps can lead to surprisingly large shifts over time.
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CURATOR'S NOTE
Alex makes a great argument for emergent organization for fostering innovation and creativity.
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