Management Theory

Managing the Water, Not the Ship

Learning to manage protocols

Jan 9 • rafa

Case Study: Ghosts in the System

When AI Agents Act, but No One Is in Charge

Jan 6 • rafa

The Nature of the Firm Revisited: A Protocol-Based Account

Transaction, Management, and Production Protocols

Dec 17, 2025 • rafa

Management Archetypes for 2030

Four archetypes for organizations built on software, protocols, and AI

Dec 17, 2025 • rafa

Most Management Today Isn’t Leadership Anymore

Protocols, commitments, and the shift from people supervision to parameter configuration.

Dec 17, 2025 • rafa

When Protocols Endure

A Considered Response to "The Hard Authority of the Protocol" re:The Uneven Fate of Codified Judgment

Dec 15, 2025 • rafa

The Hard Authority of the Protocol

On the Codification of Practice, Protocol Decay, and the Necessity for Repair

Dec 15, 2025 • rafa

Owning Demand vs. Writing the Rules

On Aggregation Theory, Protocol Power, and AI

Dec 11, 2025 • rafa

Contra NPC Memo re:Management post-LLMs

A One-Shot Critique of Sloppy Management Theory

Dec 9, 2025 • rafa

LLMs and the Recomposition of Managerial Theory

Management After LLMs (i.e. Speculating a Return to Interpretation)

Dec 9, 2025 • rafa

Management as Protocol: The Subsumption of Managerial Discretion into Software Architecture

A Genealogy from Sovereign Intent to Algorithmic Governance

Dec 9, 2025 • rafa

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