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    1. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred May 12

      This is a tweetstorm about what I’m learning about company organizational structure, alignment, and how to innovate rapidly while scaling. Disclaimers: 1. Learning from other companies often means de facto survivorship bias 2. I’m not an expert, just learning as fast as I can

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    2. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred May 12

      1. Successful companies seem to derive the structure of the organization backward from goals (OKRs). Amazon calls it “service-driven architecture,” Google apparently calls them “functional units,” many CEOs refer to it as something about decentralized teams

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    3. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred May 12

      But what this really means is an organization defines its objectives (Bezos recommends selecting objectives that will be the same 10 yrs from now) and starting with small teams dedicated to that thing. E.g. a “lower prices team” and a “better selection” team at early Amazon

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    4. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred May 12

      Those teams tend to be very autonomous and are designed to not require central sign-off. One owner is responsible for each OKR set and get help from centralized units (finance, for example) as needed. Duplicate work isn’t frowned upon as coordination to avoid that is so difficult

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    5. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred May 12

      Management relies heavily on those units to understand about what’s happening, and tries to have frequent reporting as a means of understanding as much as accountability. Andy Grove famously turned Intel around on a dime based on a single memo from a field salesperson.

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    6. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred May 12

      Teams are built to be fully functioning units. There isn’t often a monolithic “engineering” organization, but a couple of engineers assigned to each team. You’re grouped by task/objective not skill set. Amazon refers to itself as “hundreds of little startups.” That’s powerful

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    7. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred May 12

      2. OKRs (objectives/key results) have been written about in a dozen books, with google being perhaps the strongest advocate. You can get 90% of the information in a single page here: https://rework.withgoogle.com/guides/set-goals-with-okrs/steps/introduction/ …. They work.

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    8. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred May 12

      3. Leadership of these teams means 100% ownership of results no matter what happens, and a huge number of companies consider who those people are is incredibly important

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    9. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred May 12

      That concludes the last couple weeks of trying to learn as quickly as possible. Books: Measure what Matters by Doerr 7 Powers by Helmer The Outsiders by Thorndike In the Plex by Levy Anything Andy Grove has ever written or said, but particularly High Output Management

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      Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred May 12

      If you’re only going to read one book I recommend High Output Management

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        1. Sanket Nadhani‏ @sanketnadhani May 12
          Replying to @AustenAllred

          High Output Management is awesome. The first book I hand to a first-time manager. Made extensive notes from it here -https://sanketnadhani.com/6-book-summaries-on-managing-teams-organizational-design-strategy-and-innovation-4ea79299393b …

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        2. Joe Kent‏ @itsjoekent May 12
          Replying to @AustenAllred

          Know of any books on the internals of Amazon & how it operates?

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        3. Sanket Nadhani‏ @sanketnadhani May 12
          Replying to @itsjoekent @AustenAllred

          If you are looking mostly for the management side of things, The Amazon Way is quite good.

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        1. Jay Best‏ @jaybestnz May 13
          Replying to @AustenAllred

          This is an epic tweetstorm, surely would make a great blog post?

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        2. KimSia Sim  🇸🇬 💻 📗‏ @KimStacks May 13
          Replying to @AustenAllred

          @threadreaderapp unroll pls

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        3. Thread Reader App‏ @threadreaderapp May 13
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          Hi the unroll you asked for: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/995415919789658112.html … Enjoy :) 🤖

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        1. Jacob Anstey‏ @jacob_anstey May 12
          Replying to @AustenAllred

          Are you telling me I shouldn't go for that MBA? ;-)

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        2. Daniel Copeland‏ @dan_coperine May 12
          Replying to @AustenAllred

          @threadreaderapp unroll

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        3. Thread Reader App‏ @threadreaderapp May 12
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          Bonjour there is your unroll: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/995415919789658112.html … Share this if you think it's interesting. 🤖

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