People Design

Chapter 12: One Hundred Desks  –  On Responsibility and…

  You finally closed your $15M B round in May, almost a year after the A round. Imagination Capital led the investment; Kapoor Capital...
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Chapter 11: Forty-five Desks  –  On Organization Architecture

  The trade show floor is bursting at the seams. So too is SparkLight Digital’s booth. Just this morning, you took part in four...
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Chapter 10: Forty Desks  –  On Competency

  Victor’s desk is in perfect order. Post-It notes sit neatly stacked in the back left corner exactly aligned with the stapler. Next to...
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Chapter 9: Twenty-five Desks  –  Decision Dynamics Overview

  For the first time in the history of SparkLight Digital, cash is not the primary constraint. For three years you were stuck in...
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Chapter 8: Fifteen Desks  –  On Followership

  The health of Bill’s wife took a nosedive the same week that Sanjay was fired. Her most recent round of chemotherapy taxed her...
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Chapter 7: Twelve Desks  – On Culture

  Sanjay’s coding productivity continues apace. Directly due to Sanjay’s efforts, for the first time, the entire CRM project is ahead of schedule. Joe...
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Chapter 6: Eight Desks –  On Teams

  The Tiger Project Team is off and running. Systems architecture drawings and user interface designs paper the walls of the Fieldstone Toyota conference...
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Chapter 5: Seven Desks  –  On Accountability

  Beatrice has become an automotive CRM expert. In the auto CRM space, eighteen different CRM systems compete. For the past four months, she...
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Chapter 4: Twenty Desks  –  On Directional Voice

  The new office is in a class B building in San Francisco. Rent is through the roof. It’s an open floor plan; there...
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Chapter 3: Five Desks –  On Being a Role…

  It’s two months later, and the Toyota Rosegarden /Toyota Brookdale kerfuffle ended up being a blessing in disguise. News of SparkLight’s platform bug...
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Chapter 2: Three Desks –  On Leader Virtues

  The $500,000 in new investment from Anik is burning fast. Six months have passed, and the apartment is crowded. Three desks, five people....
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