Our work with Organizational Culture
Do you ever feel like an ET trying to talk with humans about organizational culture? Well, that was how I felt one day... On one [...]
August 2023
May 2022
The chain of command
How on earth did we end up here? The chain of command is incredibly ubiquitous in organizations, so much so that I have difficulty finding [...]
January 2022
Practices or principles – a false dichotomy
There is a false dichotomy that often appears in lectures and texts that talk about new management models, agile methods, etc. The text goes [...]
Heuristics for interventions in organizations
In our work with organizations, we often make choices when proposing interventions or experiments that are repeated or have something similar. These simple, recurring strategies [...]
October 2021
A message to self-management enthusiasts
Working with self-management, giving courses and consulting, I usually find people saying they want to create their own management model, their governance framework or their [...]
August 2021
Exchanging Feedback in O2
The issue of feedback raises discomfort and even trauma in most people who have experienced such a practise in a corporate environment. In a process [...]
Maturity has never been this easy
I was wrong. Every time I was asked what level of maturity is needed to work in a self-managed company I would say: – Self-management [...]
Antifragility in times of crisis
When we think of an organizational design that allows an organization to thrive in a VUCA world (acronym for volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous), the [...]
September 2020
What is self-management?
Every day, self-management in companies and organizations is no longer a mystery and is starting to be discussed in corridors and offices. Many yearn for [...]
November 2019
Trust in the workplace
Common sense preaches and research has already shown that mutual trust is critical to collaboration in teams and organizations. But how the trust phenomenon really [...]