Organizational Behavior

Abdication masquerades as trust but destroys companies. True delegation requires systems, constraints, and feedback loops. This article explores how to assign work without losing sight of the outcome.

This article provides a practical framework for creating a culture code to define operating principles, facilitate better hiring, and maintain organizational alignment as a startup scales.

An analysis of startup culture as the collective behavior of a team, distinguishing it from office perks and detailing its role as the ultimate filter for hiring and firing.

An analysis of buy-in within a startup, distinguishing it from simple agreement and detailing why emotional ownership is required for a team to execute difficult pivots.

An analysis of employee engagement as the measure of discretionary effort, explaining why satisfied employees can still kill a startup and how to foster true ownership.

A breakdown of the cognitive limit of 150 social relationships and how this threshold creates critical communication and cultural challenges for growing startups.

Hiding bad news often creates more anxiety than the truth. This article explores the balance between honesty and stability, providing a framework for treating employees like partners, not children.

An analysis of core values as practical tools for business operations, distinguishing between aspirational slogans and the actual behaviors that determine how a startup functions.

This article defines the Fundamental Attribution Error and explores how founders often misjudge team failures by blaming personality rather than examining the situational context.