For my entire adult life I have been studying humans at work. There's just one problem: work sucks. Traditional working environments have become unnecessarily hierarchical and painfully political. Many organizations want to go faster. They want to be adaptive and agile. They want to leverage their network of teams and become the type of organization that can stand the test of time. Unfortunately, the present systems our traditional work institutions operate under is not to designed to do these things. This has always been frustrating to me.