Reinventing Organisations

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Lisa Gill and Mark Eddleston celebrate 50 episodes of Leadermorphosis

...ion of trying to help reimagine companies and organisations: the way we work together, the way we learn together. And around about that time, I read 'Reinventing Organisations' by Frederic Laloux, which I know is for many of the guests I have on the podcast, a real entry point to a lot of this stuff - sort of a gateway. And...more
...l entry point to a lot of this stuff - sort of a gateway. And through that I met lots of peers that were interested in that and getting excited about reinventing work, and then my consulting and coaching work started to move in that direction more specifically. And then I met Karin Tenelius the co-founder of ...more
... how little I was involved in things that impacted me and I saw so much wasted potential - so I think that was the seed. And then reading books like 'Reinventing Organisations', I just became fascinated that this was possible and discovered all of these case studies and I just wanted more. My learning appetite sped up and t...more
...g that struck me when we met is that you're kind of exactly the same in person as on the podcast. So I guess that's the wholeness aspect ticked from 'Reinventing Organisations'. What are you passionate about? What are your interests outside of self-management and progressive orgs? Lisa Gill: I'm happy to hear that I'm the s...more
...e three stages of adopting self-management: the first being head - the kind of intellectual stage, and then the second being heart. Once you've read Reinventing Organisations, or once you've read these different books: Brave New Work, or blogs, or whatever it is, you kind of get it intellectually, but then there's this who...more
...s a good time to begin experimenting with this stuff? Because I think that some of the listeners might be like a lot of the people that come along to Reinventing Work; some are curious, but they're not quite doing it. Is there a good moment to begin this journey? Lisa Gill: Yes, the million dollar question, is...more
... lonely, like: "I'm the only one in my organisation that is into this stuff and gets this stuff. What do I do?", you know? And I think that's why the Reinventing Work movement is so great, because I think finding your fellow travellers, whether that's in your organisation, or outside your organisation, find yo...more
...r than trying to do some big culture change. So I think Liberating Structures are a really good active thing you can do. And meetups of course, like Reinventing Work - find a Reinventing Work meetup in your city or start one; that's the great thing that you've done, Mark, is to make it really spreadable movem...more
...ig culture change. So I think Liberating Structures are a really good active thing you can do. And meetups of course, like Reinventing Work - find a Reinventing Work meetup in your city or start one; that's the great thing that you've done, Mark, is to make it really spreadable movement - it's open source; yo...more
...ark, is to make it really spreadable movement - it's open source; you can just set it up and have conversations with like-minded people. I've been to Reinventing Work meetups now in London, in Melbourne, and Sydney, so we're trying to do bingo and go on all the continents. And through that you'll find the diff...more

Amy Edmondson on psychological safety and the future of work

... to do really interesting work in this domain. I’d say both of us were quite inspired by, and it’s not the first book we read, but Frederic Laloux’s ‘Reinventing Organisations’, and there are some very profound case studies in there. The self-managing organisation to me as a construct is much like the learning organisation ...more
...can show relationships with it. I’m more drawn toward the bigger picture — I really am excited by the work of Mike and other people who are trying to reinventing work, or think: “How can work be better? People spend a lot of their waking hours at work, how can it be better?” And of course there’s room for lots...more

Frederic Laloux with an invitation to reclaim integrity and aliveness

...L Gill: I was reflecting earlier about the fact that your book, Reinventing Organisations, came out in 2014. And six years later, for me the world feels like it’s changed a lot. And I feel like the this new ways of working movement, I gue...more

Peter Koenig on source, money and consciousness
...Lisa Gill: Yeah, I'm kind of curious now, if listeners by this point, if perhaps some of them are fans of Frederick Laloux's book, 'Reinventing Organisations', they may already be squirming at some of the things we've talked about so far, because I know that when I first came across your work, there were q...more

Margaret Wheatley on leadership and Warriors for the Human Spirit

...ing teams or self organising organisations are nothing new, but it seems like there's, they're sort of trendy at the moment. And there are books like reinventing organisations, and then there are sort of systems like holocracy out there. But I speak to lots of people who feel like there's something missing - the kind of hum...more