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 [...]
September 2021
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 [...]
Organizational Structure in O2: roles and circles
Today we begin a series of posts where we will explain in more detail various elements that are part of Organic Organization, a self-management framework [...]
September 2017
The shadows of Agile
First of all, I will confess that I'm also an Agile Coach. I've spent a lot of my energy in the last few years helping [...]
Giving feedback is not about the other person. It’s about you.
I was interviewing Gisele, manager of a company where we were starting a Target Teal project. I couldn't believe what I heard: Gisele: Peter is [...]