A working lab · Dr. Khaled Jassem
The Lab.On how organizations learn, remember, and adapt.
Essays on the shifting conditions of organizational knowledge — AI that co-produces it, memory that scatters, lessons that expire before they are applied — and the framework they lead toward. Work in progress, added to every week.
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- XXAnatomy of a Framework Not Yet WrittenBefore building the thing, it is worth being ruthless about what would make it worth trusting. · 4 min
- XIXFrom Best Practices to First Principles in Organizational LearningCopying what worked elsewhere is not a theory. It is borrowing someone else’s answer to a different question. · 4 min
- XVIIIWhat If Learning, Memory, and Measurement Were One System?We manage them as separate functions. What would change if we treated them as a single loop? · 4 min
- XVIISpeed vs. Soundness: A Designed Dilemma, Not a FateThe trade-off between deciding fast and deciding well is usually an artifact of missing structure. · 4 min
- XVIOrganizational Knowledge DebtLike technical debt, but for the things you know that are no longer true. · 4 min
Six parts.
The series, in reading orderFour conditions of the present workplace that the inherited theories of organizational knowledge did not anticipate.
4 essays → Part IIThe Neglected LensesFour ideas, each with a respectable pedigree, that management has admired in theory and neglected in practice.
4 essays → Part IIIThe GapWhat the strains and the neglected lenses, taken together, reveal about the state of our thinking—and what is still missing from it.
2 essays → Part IVPartial Remedies and Their LimitsWhy single, isolated fixes to organizational learning tend to fail—and often make the underlying problem worse.
4 essays → Part VThe Hidden Costs of FragmentationThe compounding price an organization pays when its remedies are adopted piecemeal, without a logic to connect them.
3 essays → Part VIThe Threshold of IntegrationFrom partial fixes toward the question of an integrated, self-correcting whole—and what such a whole would have to satisfy.
3 essays →About.
The author
Dr. Khaled Jassem
Founder, programmer and researcher working on how organizations learn, remember and adapt under rapid technological and structural change. He holds a PhD in Business Administration and builds the software organizations run on — this lab is where the two meet.