Jason Shah

The other day, I noticed a coworker praising another coworker. It was genuine. It seemed to make an impact on the coworker receiving praise. He felt acknowledged, and often goes unrecognized unfortunately.

It got me thinking: wouldn’t it be great if this sort of thing happened all the time?

And the same way that virality in a product makes a consumer application get adopted widely, in most organizations, the force that drives adoption of a given practice just so happens to be some form of systematization.

Perhaps it’s publishing a memo. Maybe it’s a rule in employee contracts. Maybe it’s a department leader telling his employees they just have to do something.

But the moment something gets systematized, almost always the magic goes away.

Imagine a way in which that wasn’t true. Imagine if something that was started organically could spread in a leveraged manner?

I don’t know how this happens. But would love to.

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