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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The end of change management
The time has come to forget the current paradigm of change management. In an increasingly VUCA world, large strategic plans become obsolete before they are [...]
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. [...]