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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 [...]
Reinventing Organziations: A Critical Vision
The book Reinventing Organizations, published in 2014, quickly proved to be a bestseller and a whole movement was created around the charismatic figure of the [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
WE-have-to…
A few days ago, on a discussion channel on Target Teal's Slack, I posted a reflection on the phenomenon I called "WE-Have-To". I'm currently living [...]
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 [...]