2. Group Alignment and Effectiveness

Exploring the KF email discussion thread on group alignment and effectiveness – started by Sam.


From Sam via email:

Can a group be aligned and effective?
  • Teams and organization studies and theory suggest yes
    • Companies, charters, Indian nations, Constitutional government,...
    • Legal structure and precedent
  • Must it be this way?

(How) Can a group be non-aligned and effective?
  • To be effective, one must know what one is trying to achieve.
  • To measure, one must know that the measurements lead to those achievements, not leading astray
    • (like stack-ranking employees to get "performance")
  • To measure properly, one must have an understanding (ever-improving, incremental) of that plan and how it will achieve.
  • Without alignment, each action / exertion of energy potentially is in opposite or canceling directions / effects.
  • How can collaboration happen without alignment?
    • DNA from the same species can reproduce a new entity
    • DNA from different species cannot reproduce a new entity
Can a group be non-explicit and yet aligned? Can it grow and still be?

Can alignment be non-explicit and yet effective? Can it grow and still be?

Implicit?

Once one realizes the implication, isn't it explicit?



A second image shared by Sam:
 

...and response from Jack.

What I see:

"At the bottom, the entire landscape as a knowledge garden; near the top, individual guilds running specific quests, where the quests define missions, guild leaders and game mechanics conspire to marshal values."



...and a third image shared by Sam:



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