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- Cyb3rSyn Labs Turns One!
Please join me in celebrating the first anniversary of Cyb3rSyn Labs. Reflecting on the past year fills me with a profound sense of gratitude.
I jumped into entrepreneurship last June after 23 years of being a corporate employee with a bet that mainstream management practices in Silicon Valley (and Tech. in general) is fundamentally flawed.
As I wrote in the About Page, my startup is a crusade against Taylorism, reductionism and our blind chasing of efficiency.
The dominant western management paradigm of seeking โsolutionsโ instead of seeking understanding is broken. Most executives want to know what exactly they need to do (or copy via โbestโ practice)โฆ They want something โactionableโ.
So, they fall for the McKinseys of the world, who somehow have solutions for their problems... Or they fall one of the popular methods/frameworks - SAFe, Scrum, Spotify model, etc. - I usually call these prescriptions.
Traditional management consulting is outsourcing of thinking. I think the alternative approach is to change OUR model/worldview of the organization and that involves unlearning flawed ideas, learning new insights, thinking for yourself and experimenting with them for YOUR OWN unique context. Theory based practice - not โbestโ practice!
A small percentage of tech. practitioners, executives and entrepreneurs do realize that their map is not the territory. I aspire to help that small group to get better at making maps.
โYou can't look around for people to agree with you. You can't look around for people to even know what you're talking about. You have to think for yourself. An ability to detach yourself from the crowd is a quality you need.โ
I would like to help accelerate the pivot from the current dominant mechanistic view of the organization to a socio-technical one.
These type of paradigm shifts typically take decades. But, I have this strange feeling that Iโm actually too early and yet too late.
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