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 [...]
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 [...]
Contrary to what sometimes seems to be the reality, the world of work is not populated by manipulative psychopaths who want to maintain power. [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
The term horizontal management has been used to describe practices that seek to completely eliminate or reduce hierarchy. The ways in which this happens [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]