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Episodes about distributed leadership

8 episodes discussing this topic

Lina Maskoliūnė - Leadermorphosis episode 79: Lina Maskoliūnė on lessons from a self-managed business experiment in Lithuania

Lina Maskoliūnė on lessons from a self-managed business experiment in Lithuania

Lina shares the story of her time at Finnish commercial real estate company Technopolis where she led the transformation of the Lithuania business unit. Inspired by Frederic Laloux's book Reinventing Organisations, she got the mandate from her boss to run her business unit of 20 people in a totally different way, with no managers. She shares the story of what her team learned, the challenges they faced, and the results they achieved.

Ep. 79 7 Sept 2022
Marwa Farouq - Leadermorphosis episode 71: Marwa Farouq on new ways of working, diversity, equity and inclusion at Teach for All

Marwa Farouq on new ways of working, diversity, equity and inclusion at Teach for All

Marwa Farouq leads the Global Operations Circle in Teach for All, which is a global network of partner organisations developing collective leadership to improve education and expand opportunity for all children. Marwa shares what she’s learned from exploring new ways of working at Teach for All, including dismantling the senior leadership team, moving decisions closer to the work, embracing tensions and liberating untapped leadership through their core value of diversity, equity and inclusion.

Ep. 71 17 Jan 2022
Jos de Blok - Leadermorphosis episode 69: Jos de Blok on Buurtzorg and the virtues of humanising, not protocolising

Jos de Blok on Buurtzorg and the virtues of humanising, not protocolising

Jos de Blok is the founder of Buurtzorg, a home care organisation in the Netherlands with 15,000 nurses and no managers. We talk about how their decentralised, human approach has helped them during the pandemic, why he believes ‘protocolising things’ in organisations does damage, and his advice for leaders and traditional top-down organisations that are embarking on transformation processes. It was an honour to talk to one of my heroes and to hear him speak with such heart. Enjoy!

Ep. 69 5 Dec 2021
Ed Gonsalves - Leadermorphosis episode 13: Ed Gonsalves from The Cooplexity Institute on breaking paradigms through play

Ed Gonsalves from The Cooplexity Institute on breaking paradigms through play

Ed Gonsalves has spent more than two decades studying the concept of play and specialises in designing senior executive programmes for high performance teams in entrepreneurial and large organisations. Is it possible to discover new paradigms of working and leading by incorporate unstructured play into our learning experiences? What do carnaval, prisons and nature have to do with self-managing teams? Ed, an associate professor at Toulouse Business School, Barcelona and the co-founder of The Cooplexity Institute, shares what he has learnt.

Ep. 13 29 Jan 2018
Karin Tenelius - Leadermorphosis episode 12: Karin Tenelius from Tuff Leadership Training on giving away the authority

Karin Tenelius from Tuff Leadership Training on giving away the authority

Karin has been experimenting with employee-driven organisations and self-managing teams since the nineties. She shares the approach she’s developed which involves “giving all of the authority away” and then coaching people in a higher level of communication skills, resulting in radical and rapid transformations. Listen to learn about how she transformed nearly a dozen companies and the successes (and failures) she encountered along the way.

Ep. 12 8 Dec 2017
Helen Sanderson - Leadermorphosis episode 9: Helen Sanderson from HSA on reinventing home care

Helen Sanderson from HSA on reinventing home care

Helen Sanderson is a leader of several social enterprises specialising in “person-centred care.” She shares her story of stepping back as CEO of her company HSA to create a self-managing team and all the leadership and culture challenges they encountered along the way. Helen also announces a new and exciting project which involves self-managed well-being teams, à la Buurtzorg in the Netherlands, with an ambitious mission to scale from six to 600 in under three years. And beneath all of this is a deeply personal sense of purpose...

Ep. 9 11 Oct 2017