Notes on Organizations
Organizations keep revealing the same patterns under different names. OrgRiver collects those ideas from many disciplines, connects them, and turns them into concepts, essays, and practical tools.
Field Guide · Essays · Tools
Field Notes · Essays and Ideas
Short essays exploring how organizations actually work, written as ideas surface, one recurring pattern at a time.
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What Does Your Org Whisper?
In 2008, Paul Graham argued every city whispers an ambient message about…
The Field Guide
An evolving reference of recurring organizational patterns: concepts, biases, laws, and mental models, named and explained one at a time. This is the vocabulary for seeing what is actually happening inside an organization.
G.I. Joe Fallacy
Knowing a bias exists doesn’t reliably stop it from operating on your own judgment.
The IKEA Effect
Involving people in a change builds buy-in only if what they build actually gets finished.
Streisand Effect
Trying to suppress information sends a signal, and the signal is often louder than the message.
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