
Organizational Design
This helps you think through team structure decisions using frameworks from Gustav Soderström and Brian Chesky. It walks you through the core speed versus coherence trade-off: Amazon-style decentralization for parallel execution or Apple-style centralization for product coherence. The skill pushes you to question management layers and whether your leaders actually understand the work their teams produce. Most useful when you're planning a reorg, choosing between functional and divisional models, or trying to figure out why coordination keeps failing. The Chesky stuff about eliminating managers who can't do the work is blunt but clarifying.
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$ npx -y skills add refoundai/lenny-skills --skill organizational-design --agent claude-codeInstalls into .claude/skills of the current project.
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This helps you think through team structure decisions using frameworks from Gustav Soderström and Brian Chesky. It walks you through the core speed versus coherence trade-off: Amazon-style decentralization for parallel execution or Apple-style centralization for product coherence. The skill pushes you to question management layers and whether your leaders actually understand the work their teams produce. Most useful when you're planning a reorg, choosing between functional and divisional models, or trying to figure out why coordination keeps failing. The Chesky stuff about eliminating managers who can't do the work is blunt but clarifying.
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