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The best Organizational Design newsletters

9 newsletters, ranked by editorial quality and how recently they published. Looking for something more specific? Search instead.

cutlefish.substack.com· weekly· Published 3 days ago

Essays on product management, organizational dynamics and the workplace by a long-time product practitioner. Readers get reflective, nuanced takes on causality, feature factories and what companies can and cannot offer people.

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jackskeels.com· weekly· Published yesterday

Essays for agency and consultancy leaders on organizational structure, AI's impact on agency work, and pricing and selling. Uses client stories and analogies plus some cited research to explain how agencies operate and where they get stuck.

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premium.microservices.io· irregular· Published 8 days ago

A series-based premium newsletter from Microservices.IO aimed at CIOs and chief architects, arguing that fast software delivery flow emerges from socio-technical architecture. The excerpts cover fast flow, the limits of GenAI coding agents as amplifiers of existing capabilities, and how Team Topologies structures teams to sustain fast flow.

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davesresearch.com· weekly· Published 11 days ago

A personal newsletter from a product research consultant exploring frameworks, product strategy, and organizational dynamics through a game-theoretic lens. Readers get reflections on why research frameworks can become reference tools rather than entry points, and a serialized model of organizations as nested games with differing timescales.

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nathanbroslawsky.ghost.io· irregular· Published 2 months ago

Nathan Broslawsky, a chief product and technology officer, writes essays on leadership, organizational design, and AI's effects on how companies work. The excerpts pair concrete organizational observations, such as how reorgs leave architectural debris, with pointed critiques of popular ideas like 'taste' in AI-era product work.

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cpj.fyi· weekly· Published 2 days ago

Clay Parker Jones writes essays and commentary on how organizations actually work, covering operating systems, management, and how structure, contracts and training shape performance. Each issue pairs short sourced news items with his own reflections on what these cases reveal about internal operations.

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allinondata.com· weekly· Published 2 months ago

Essays from a firm guiding organizations toward AI capability, mixing engineering metaphors (cyclomatic complexity) with provocations about how companies budget and structure around AI. Excerpts also include a veteran engineer's personal account of using AI tools to build products late in his career.

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michelezanini.com· irregular· Published 3 months ago

Michele Zanini, co-writing with Gary Hamel, publishes essays and book announcements on management and AI. The sample shows a skeptical essay on AI hype backed by cited studies, plus promotional posts for the expanded Humanocracy book.

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unclewalt.ghost.io· irregular· Inactive for over a year

A consultant's newsletter on scaling small businesses using the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS), covering growth stages, organizational structure, accountability charts and roles versus seats. Readers get framework-driven advice from a practitioner who works with EOS implementers.

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