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Peter Merholz's semi-weekly newsletter on organization design, design leadership, and bringing humanism into the places we work.

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[TMA] Introducing "Design Org Dimensions"
June 2025

[TMA] Introducing "Design Org Dimensions"

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June 2025

[TMA] On Designer and Researcher Burnout; Share Your Experience

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May 2025

[TMA] The Design Executive's Starter Checklist

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May 2025

[TMA] Pokemon, Config 2025, and Recruiting

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May 2025

[TMA] 🌶️ Spicy(?) Takes on AI, Design Tests, and Cowardice

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April 2025

[TMA] New UX/Design Leadership Masterclass Offerings

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April 2025

[TMA] Thoughts on AI/UX: Quality, Bespokeness, and Adaptation

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April 2025

[TMA] Tools don't design, people do (yes, this is a little about AI)

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April 2025

[TMA] Make Meaningful Metrics

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March 2025

[TMA] Design's challenges make sense with this perspective

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March 2025

[TMA] Is "Is Design Dead?" Dead?

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March 2025

[TMA] Reconsider Your Power

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March 2025

[TMA] In which I process some anger and frustration

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February 2025

[TMA] Leadership Masterclass Feb 25-26/ Podcast with Roger Martin

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February 2025

[TMA] Quality >>> Craft | Reframe Your Mandate

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January 2025

[TMA] First person design leadership stories; rankings redux

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January 2025

[TMA] Design Org Ranking, this Friday (Jan 17) for a good cause!

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January 2025

[TMA] New year, same me

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December 2024

[TMA] Empty Platitudes and a Focus on Skills, not Roles

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December 2024

[TMA] AI Will Widen the Design Chasm

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November 2024

[TMA] Design Leadership Themes, and upcoming event

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November 2024

[TMA] Design maturity and the laziness of 'best practices'

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October 2024

[TMA] Design Thinking Isn't Dead

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October 2024

[TMA] "Design" is too damn big

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October 2024

[TMA] Toward a new org design for UX and PM

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October 2024

[TMA] What's Next for Design Leaders

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September 2024

[TMA] Welcome to The Merholz Agenda

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