An Invitation

I’ve been thinking about how organizations work — and fail to work — for a long time.

I work in a fast-growing company. I participate in cross-functional teams. I see collaboration working — and I see it failing. At some point I started looking for a formal language to describe what I was observing intuitively, and I found it in a systems theory developed in my home city.

This publication is my attempt to share that intuition and the theory behind it. Not as a finished methodology. Not as a consulting pitch. As an invitation to cooperate — in an orthogonal manner.

I wrote this because the ideas feel true, and I want to find out if other people recognize them.

What I’m looking for

I’m looking for people who see what I see.

People who run companies that grew faster than their structure could handle, and who feel the friction but can’t name it. People who’ve reorganized three times and nothing changed. People who know that their best work happens in informal, cross-functional groups — but who have no way to formalize, measure, or protect that work.

People who build teams and sense intuitively that some combinations produce magic and others produce nothing — and who want a language for why.

People who’ve read Malyuta, or Bertalanffy, or Stafford Beer, or Donella Meadows, and who’ve wondered how to apply systems thinking to the teams they lead.

People who work in conditions where organizational failure is not abstract — where the structure has to work because there’s no room for it not to.

If that’s you, I’d like to hear from you. Not because I have all the answers. I clearly don’t — I admitted several times in these pages where the framework is incomplete, where the measurement methods are unfinished, where the theory outpaces the practice.

I’m looking for fellow thinkers who want to build this together.

What comes next

This publication is version one. It will evolve based on what I learn from building the tool, from the conversations that come out of sharing this, and from the people who reach out.

I plan to:

Write about specific aspects of the framework in more depth — as essays, as case analyses, as responses to questions I receive. These will live on this site and on my newsletter.

Build the tool and share what I learn from using it. The data will either confirm the framework or challenge it. Both are valuable.

Translate this publication into Ukrainian — because the theory was born in Lviv, and the community that might benefit most from it reads Ukrainian.

Connect with people who are working on similar problems — in organizational design, in systems theory, in the practical challenge of building teams that can survive crises.

A note on origins

This framework stands on the shoulders of Oleksandr Malyuta’s life work. He developed Hypercomplex Dynamic Systems theory as a universal language for describing systems of any nature — physical, biological, social, organizational. The fact that his work remains largely unknown outside of Ukrainian and Russian-language academic circles is, itself, an example of the structural problem this publication describes: value that exists but can’t flow across boundaries.

I hope this publication helps that flow begin.

If any of this resonated — or if you think it’s wrong and want to tell me why — I’d genuinely like to hear from you.

sasha@gyrator.io