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 [...]
May 2022
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, [...]
Synchronizing efforts in O2
Individuals are driven to behave according to the system in which they are inserted. People who work in a hierarchical environment won't escape this effect. [...]
October 2017
Reviewing work with O2
At the heart of O2 is self-organization. We know that distributing authority and allowing a group to self-manage is far more effective than treating people [...]