Autonomy at work
As humans, we have an intrinsic desire to direct our own actions. We hate not being able to make decisions about our own lives. At [...]
June 2022
The value of hierarchy and authority
From the moment I started working with organizational design, improving our relationship with power within organizations was important to me. The idea of an authority [...]
May 2022
The way of the External Link (O2) or Lead Link (Holacracy)
If your organization is shifting into self-management, you may find yourself going through a transition from manager to systems thinker. The most common path (though [...]
January 2022
Building awareness around group interactions
Contrary to what sometimes seems to be the reality, the world of work is not populated by manipulative psychopaths who want to maintain power. [...]
October 2021
Where are the plans and schedules?
In intensive O2 workshops, we usually reserve a session to talk about “anti-patterns” for self-management. These “anti-patterns” are common solutions to certain problems, which instead [...]
September 2021
Writing good policies
The Organizational Design work carried out by Target Teal generally involves giving more clarity to agreements within an organization. We believe that one of the [...]
The Potential of Synchronize mode when using the “powerful questions” pattern
The Organic Organization's way of synchronizing is not just a meeting to resolve a list of tensions raised by the participants. This simple ritual can [...]
What is horizontal management?
The term horizontal management has been used to describe practices that seek to completely eliminate or reduce hierarchy. The ways in which this happens [...]
July 2021
Mastering circle restrictions in O2
Self-management with Organic Organization starts to get fun when we start thinking about more sophisticated and creative mechanisms to distribute authority. This often takes the [...]
November 2017
Feelings of a change agent
This is a story about anger. A tremendous fury and a desperation that I enter when I come across self-centered organizational environments. Where office politics, [...]