Ideas you can run.
These essays and case studies come directly from Death to the Org Chart. They cover the workflows, numbers and operating decisions behind the book.
Source: Death to the Org Chart, first editionStart where the business is bleeding.
Time, money and decision speed are the three places to look first. Pick the page that matches the constraint you can see.
Operating drag
Why a company can be growing and still feel expensive, slow and hard to run.
Chapter 2Headcount capacity
The honest cost of a hire, and the workflows hiding inside the next role on the plan.
Chapter 3Why AI experiments stall
Two failure modes: tools that change nothing, and leverage the company does not own.
Chapters 5 to 7The Operationalise Method
Audit, Architect, Activate and Accelerate, in the order the book uses them.
Chapter 9The AI marketing workflow
The childcare performance-marketing case: cost, unchanged conversion and the work that stays human.
Chapter 10The AI finance workflow
The Providoor system built against the work of a planned A$200,000 CFO hire.
Chapter 11The AI Chief of Staff
The always-on executive workflow Luke describes running for about A$200 a month.
Chapter 4Built-in, not bolted-on
Why adoption follows relief when the system lives inside the work.
Read the operating manual.
The complete method, examples and frameworks are in Death to the Org Chart.