you've heard of conway's law (product structure mirrors org structure)... ever wonder where the chicken-egg loop starts? my theory is that whether it starts with a min viable product or min viable organization, in both cases, they mirror mind structure of the primary founder.
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Myers-Briggs is the simplest and most legible way to explain the concept, but probably not the most useful one in practice. When I try to "read" an org this way, the most useful distinction I've found is between aesthetic vs. functional design. The signs are unmistakeable.
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I avoid orgs that are clearly the result of the founder's aesthetic imagination. This does not mean I look for orgs that have a soulless mechanistic functional feel to them. It means that any elegance in design is the result of trying to solve for function imaginatively.
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This "founder effect" on the structural DNA of an org tends to last a generation past a strong founder. It tends to be erased only when the inevitable Act 2 of bean counters/financial engineers taking over and running it for a while. That phase is a sort of forgetting phase.
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Companies being run by financial engineers are generally horrible to work for, which is one reason the strategy consulting landscape looks bleak right now... 90% of larger companies are being run by such people. Even if they aren't out to game their comp, it's still bleak.
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Curious exactly what you mean by building an org like a library. It's 100% true, but as an INTP I need a better formalism please. Also, is it possible for an INTP to successfully found/manage businesses, or are we all doomed to be college professors and game show contestants?
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