Flawed marble.
Michelangelo Buonarroti was able to turn a flawed and already-worked piece of marble into the David, so there must be a way to strategize how we pivot organization structures for a new age. The artist was reported to have asserted, "if people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all."
Instead of merely pursuing wonder, we should be striving to create it.
Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Kenyon Cox. 1887. Oil on canvas. Gift of friends of the artist, through August F. Jaccaci, 1908. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Today's industrial revolution calls for an organization to match
McKinsey: ...few industrial organizations have truly cracked the productivity code to maintain high performance over the long run. A recent analysis found that as of 2020, the average life span of a company on the S&P 500 index was down to 21 years, compared with 32 years in 1996. A range of technologies, including most recently generative AI (gen AI), have promised to transform industrial production. But despite the real progress some companies have made in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, productivity growth remains stubbornly low across most of the world’s largest economies...What’s missing are the organizational structures required to make technology truly work.
Workplace habit of coffee badging
Megan DeLaire: According to Owl Labs, "coffee badging" is when employees of companies with return-to-office (RTO) mandates go into office to "show face" for a few hours, then head back home to finish the work day.
Michelangelo’s "David" was carved out of a flawed marble slab
Adnan Qiblawi: in the summer of 1501, the workshop’s overseers assigned the work to Michelangelo. In just over two years, he transformed the misunderstood marble block into the 17-foot-tall statue that is today one of the most famous artworks in history. At the unveiling, the unexpected size, weight, and beauty of the statue demanded a reshuffling of plans. In 1504, 30 Florentine cultural leaders, including Leonardo da Vinci and Sandro Botticelli, convened to determine David’s fate.
28 classic cocktails you should know how to make
Oset Babür-Winter: Even if the bartender wants to get a bit creative with garnishes or glassware, you'll generally know what to expect — stability, perfectly harmonious flavors that have stood the test of time, and, well, booze.