Siva Subramaniam 🇮🇳

📈 HR Leader @amazon | 🏗️ Building Teams | 🎨 Designing Work & Culture | 🧪 Chasing & Experimenting Fresh Thinking in

[Siva Subramaniam 🇮🇳 @at_shiv]

Minimalism is best when it is self designed. I keep coming back to this simple iPhone setup.

Dark mode + Dark minimal wallpaper = bliss!

[Siva Subramaniam 🇮🇳 @at_shiv]

The hardest transition in scaling a startup isn't product-market fit.

It's decision-making moving from:

1 founder → a few co-founders → many distributed leaders

Each step means giving up control you're not sure the next person is ready for.

Builders, does this track?

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Try this: build a value map of your team. Shirt-size (XS–XL) the coordination, decision, and information tax between teams.

You’ll know exactly where your structure is bleeding.

Full article with tools + examples: https://t.co/dGmiVxe9tl

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Every org redesign I’ve seen starts the same way: someone pulls up the org chart.

That’s the mistake.

An org chart tells you who owns what. It tells you nothing about how work actually flows.

Here’s how to design organizations that really work 🧵

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The part most leaders get backwards:

People come LAST in org design.

Your path to value creation should determine structure. Then you find leaders to manage that value creation — not design structure around the leaders you happen to have.

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Mitigations exist for each tax:

Coordination → roles that absorb it (PM/program mgmt), self-sufficient task teams

Decision → executive sponsors, delegation tenets by blast radius

Information → analytics teams + radically democratized customer data

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Example: you open a tech hub in another country because talent is cheaper.

On paper: savings.

On the value map: coordination tax spikes, decision points multiply, and the new team works with stale customer information.

The “cheap” structure is expensive.

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Once you map value flow, you can see the three hidden taxes every structure imposes:

→ Coordination tax: how many teams must sync to ship

→ Decision tax: how many hoops before “go”

→ Information tax: how far teams sit from customer insight

[Siva Subramaniam 🇮🇳 @at_shiv]

The fix: don’t start with the org chart. Start with a value map.

Trace how value actually gets added to your product, from origin to customer.

Finance folks say “follow the money.” For org design, follow the decision.

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The worst of these constraints has a name:

Partnership Standstill.

It’s when the cost of collaborating exceeds the cost of just doing it yourself.

So people stop collaborating. Ideas either die in review hoops — or get built in silence.

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Most structures today are still designed around two things: cost and ownership.

“Talent is cheaper there.” “This VP should own that team.”

Both feel rational. Both quietly install constraints that your best people will hit every single day.

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Driving innovation? Great leaders focus disproportionately on "removing barriers" rather than just influencing ideas. #leadership #innovation #strategy #peoplestrategylabs

Full post: https://t.co/fKN6OiB003

Video Summary: https://t.co/LxUMBw9aRw

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What makes or breaks a great career? Whether it's #HR, #Leadership or any other career, it's small habits that build lasting impact.

Read full post here > https://t.co/vpnhnHjWJX

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What's the make or break when creating great cultures? The one thing that makes workplaces great, boring or toxic?

Find out what!

https://t.co/37vJde7Gzc

#peoplestrategylabs hashtag#videoexplainers hashtag#podcasts hashtag#people hashtag#strategy hashtag#culture

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Chasing innovation? Why are some organisations are incredibly successful at it and others aren't? If you think you can "generate" innovation, it's probably not the right approach. Here's an idea:

https://t.co/2uD9bujdGY

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Redesigning your organisation and starting with an org chart? The very fact that you use an org chart is flawed. Here’s an idea on what it takes to build organisations that really work.

AI Video Summary adapted from original article:

https://t.co/q29sr5DgWt

[Siva Subramaniam 🇮🇳 @at_shiv]

A genius is someone who can do the average thing when others around them are going crazy. - #Napoleon #Wisdom #Thrive

[Supriya Sahu IAS @supriyasahuias]

Trekkers can rejoice. Tamil Nadu Forest Department is coming up with an online trekking trails Atlas to enable people to go on their favorite treks in beautiful TN by booking treks online. Initially 40 trekking routes will be made online. These are already existing trekking trails which have been reworked with local community to be jointly operated by them and TN Forest Dept professionally. This will provide a fascinating way to people to connect with nature #TNForest #TNAssembly @TNDIPRNEWS @Indiahikes

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Made a whole bunch of tactile braille cards for visually challenged kids as part of @amazon’s global month of #volunteering in #Chennai, #India! Elated with the experience! Small gestures make the biggest difference!

[Naval @naval]

Use money to reward the best, not to motivate the rest.