mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06CEO at Conflux | Exec Advisory | Operating Models | Capability Design | Co-author of 'Team Topologies' and 'Adapt Together'
"Microsoft told us that there is no more space in Azure for us to expand our cloud footprint" - senior engineer in a major UK/global financial services group to me today. ☁️⛔
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Combination of AI demand and Microsoft engineering woes (?)
The biggest April Fool's joke? Using AI to generate more output quicker instead of reshaping the flow of value in teams and systems.
Multi-billion dollar joke...
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"A governance form that requires a permanent supply of correct understanding from an expert class is structurally not perdurable. It holds within its engineered parameters and fails outside them."
https://thecynefin.co/beltane-and-the-barricade/
Dave Snowden
Mmm, petrichor 👃
"the most effective teams don’t choose between hierarchy and flatness but rather shift between them, much like the SEALs. This emerging capability, which my co-authors and I have termed hierarchical adaptability, offers a blueprint for building teams that respond to diverse and shifting demands without the disruption of formal restructuring. "
Article by Nicole Abi-Esber, Lindy Greer, and Annebel de Hoogh
'I recently watched a $40 million AI initiative collapse. Not because the technology failed—the models worked beautifully in demos. It collapsed because the organization couldn’t answer a basic question: What does "customer" mean?' - hard truths from Kenneth R Stott
Free sample from his book "Simple Is Hard" about organizational intelligence - https://simpleishard.io/#sample
"... Comrade Trump's three-part mobilization: human rights, finance, and national security, all insisting that the enemy gets a vote, and voting unanimously for a post-American world."
Cory Doctorow on Trum ushering in the "Gretacene" (post-oil world).
https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/04/hope-in-the-dark/#hormuzed-into-the-gretacene
@AndiMann@masto.ai An interesting companion to this is organizations using suppliers, especially for consulting and outside help:
