Peter Koenig on source, money and consciousness
...nderstanding perfectly the ideology, because I had it myself once. It's going back a while, going back 20, 30 years, I was really right to believe in self-organising systems and I think I mentioned to you once, I was in a group for 10 years. We called ourselves 'self-organising' and were experimenting with this an...more
...rs, I was really right to believe in self-organising systems and I think I mentioned to you once, I was in a group for 10 years. We called ourselves 'self-organising' and were experimenting with this and actually, I had the belief that we were, until after a certain point, I recognised looking with hindsight very ...more
...nd then there's a molecule, and then there's a cell, and then there's a body and then now extrapolating from that, of course, same principles, it's a self-organising organisation. But the other things we're looking at nature, and here we're looking at a human created enterprise, like a human created thing from an ...more
Margaret Wheatley on leadership and Warriors for the Human Spirit
...ief, which is quite naive, was that, people will just greet it with open arms and be very thankful for it. Because the paradigm of the new science of self-organising systems, which is another way of understanding self-managing systems - you can organise and get order without control - that was the fundamental 'aha...more
...Lisa Gill: Margaret, I'm wondering what you make of, because I mean, you mentioned at the start of our conversation, this quote about self organising teams and the productivity benefits of that, and that was in the 80s. And yet here we are in 2019. And self organising teams or self organising organ...more
...conversation, this quote about self organising teams and the productivity benefits of that, and that was in the 80s. And yet here we are in 2019. And self organising 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 rei...more
Anna Elgh on self-managing teams and shifting conflicts at Svenska Retursystem
... And that was really what we needed. So the journey that we are going to talk about a little bit more, really not start with the ambition of creating self-organising teams and started from something really different. ...more
...these kinds of companies existed. And I realised that most of my career had been really different from what it has been if I had worked in this whole self-organising company and I think that I, myself have actually worked in that way in many companies and taking my decisions, but it hasn't been really approved fro...more
...recipe and then follow the recipe and then it was over and done. This is just the opposite, I would say. I mean, the hardest part of moving towards a self-organising company is the fact that it is the organisation: the employees itself, not me as a CEO that have to lead the way. And if you don't stay in that, and ...more
Lisa Gill and Mark Eddleston celebrate 50 episodes of Leadermorphosis
...e real appetite for it, but it still has a bit of catching up to do I think, in terms of where Europe's got to. And so, just looking at the number of self-organising, self-managing companies over the last few years, and the familiarity with some of these concepts, I think has shifted a lot in the collective consci...more
Keith McCandless and Henri Lipmanowicz on acting your way into a new kind of organising with Liberating Structures
...in Denmark, I don't know if you're familiar with it, Lisa, they were kind of ready for the 'how to' part. Like they'd been really into self-managing, self-organising, studied up. So a couple years ago, I was invited into one of their classes to just introduce the structures. We formed a little ensemble of students...more