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Episodes about holacracy

26 episodes discussing this topic

Tamila Gresham and Simon Mont - Leadermorphosis episode 95: Tamila Gresham and Simon Mont from Harmonize on new ways of seeing, being and working together

Tamila Gresham and Simon Mont from Harmonize on new ways of seeing, being and working together

The way groups are working together is not working. But introducing new structures alone is not enough. Tamila and Simon talk to me about how we need to develop our ways of seeing, being and working together if we want to act in the highest possible alignment with our vision. A key part of this is using the lens of Power, Belonging and Justice (PBJ) and strengthening our muscle in Conflict Resilience. Strap in for some powerful wisdom, giggles and deep learning.

Ep. 95 21 May 2024
Etienne Salborn and Tonny Wamboga - Leadermorphosis episode 94: Etienne Salborn and Tonny Wamboga on SINA, self-organisation and ‘freesponsibility’

Etienne Salborn and Tonny Wamboga on SINA, self-organisation and ‘freesponsibility’

SINA (Social Innovation Academy) is a network of social enterprise incubators in Uganda and neighbouring countries with a mission of supporting marginalised young people to create their own solutions to social problems in their communities.There are currently more than 10 SINA communities which have catalysed 70+ social enterprises and more than 500 jobs. The goal is to create a global movement of 1,000 SINAs and 100,000 social enterprises by 2035.

Ep. 94 28 Mar 2024
Aaron Dignan - Leadermorphosis episode 77: Aaron Dignan on using software to help scale new ways of working

Aaron Dignan on using software to help scale new ways of working

Aaron Dignan, author of Brave New Work and founder of The Ready, is back on the podcast, this time to talk about how his new software startup, Murmur, can help organisations scale new ways of working. We talk about the importance of team agreements and how to keep them alive, plus what Aaron and his colleagues have been learning from their latest explorations in the worlds of self-management, DAOs and their Brave New Work podcast.

Ep. 77 2 Aug 2022
Ravi Resck - Leadermorphosis episode 70: Ravi Resck on social systems that foster win-win-win relationships

Ravi Resck on social systems that foster win-win-win relationships

Ravi Resck was born to hippy parents in Brazil, became a computer network engineer, and then travelled the world as a guitarist, discovering a love of facilitation and social design. Today he goes by tags like hacktivist, org designer, facilitator, and systems mapper, sharing social technologies with others in a fun and accessible way. He works as a consultant at Target Teal, a collective exploring new ways of working, including an open-source fork of Holacracy called Organic Organization (or O2). We talk about why he believes lessons from self-management and Sociocratic-inspired models benefit all organisations, not just the ‘already-converted’, and Ravi shares some of his favourite examples of organisations and communities at the cutting edge of new ways of collaborating. Ravi is definitely one to watch in the future of work space!

Ep. 70 4 Jan 2022
Andy Brogan and Helen Sanderson - Leadermorphosis episode 67: Andy Brogan and Helen Sanderson on reinventing performance management (for real!)

Andy Brogan and Helen Sanderson on reinventing performance management (for real!)

The current models for how we measure things in organisations tend to produce compliance at their best, and dysfunctions at their worst. Andy Brogan has developed an alternative tool called Confirmation Practices that he hopes could one day completely shift how we see regulation, accreditation and accountability in general. Joined by Helen Sanderson, we discuss examples of where Confirmation Practices have made a difference (such as in a pathology service) and why this tool helps ‘put the elephant in the room’. It’s all about going from scorekeeping to sense making.

Ep. 67 9 Nov 2021
Pasteur Byabeza - Leadermorphosis episode 65: Pasteur Byabeza on transitioning to self-management at Davis College

Pasteur Byabeza on transitioning to self-management at Davis College

Pasteur Byabeza is the lead link of the Student Care Circle at Davis College, a higher learning institution in Rwanda. He is one of the pioneers who has been driving the college’s transition to becoming a self-managed, Holacratic organisation. Though they are early in their journey, taking steps like disbanding the global council and replacing management hierarchies with distributed decision making have already had a huge impact on people’s engagement levels. Pasteur shares what he has learned so far with honesty and contagious passion.

Ep. 65 27 Sept 2021
Yuji Yamada - Leadermorphosis episode 59: Yuji Yamada on Reinventing Organisations through a Japanese lens

Yuji Yamada on Reinventing Organisations through a Japanese lens

Yuji Yamada is the founder of EnFlow and is interested in exploring the differences between approaching organisational transformation from a ‘Western lens’ and a Japanese lens. We talk about teal organisations from Frederic Laloux’s book ‘Reinventing Organisations’ (which has sold 100,000 copies in Japan) and Yuji’s homegrown concept of ‘Jinen management’. Could East Asian organisations be at an advantage in developing new ways of working by drawing on their ancient wisdom and inherent cultural paradigms of interconnectedness?

Ep. 59 1 Mar 2021
Skeena Rathor - Leadermorphosis episode 47: Skeena Rathor on Extinction Rebellion, paradoxes and transformation

Skeena Rathor on Extinction Rebellion, paradoxes and transformation

Skeena Rathor, who co-leads the Vision Sensing circle in Extinction Rebellion, shares insights from inside this decentralised movement – how their Holacratic, Sociocratic structures support its collective purpose, the work they’re doing with Miki Kashtan to transform power dynamics, and why Skeena’s dream is for XR to become a touchstone for the work of co-liberation. We also talk about how XR is responding to COVID-19 and their AloneTogether campaign.

Ep. 47 17 Apr 2020
Amy Edmondson - Leadermorphosis episode 45: Amy Edmondson on psychological safety and the future of work

Amy Edmondson on psychological safety and the future of work

Amy Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School and the author of “Teaming” and “The Fearless Organisation”. We talk about her journey of researching psychological safety and teaming, as well as the paper she co-wrote about self-managing organisations. Amy shares insightful and practical lessons about leadership, how to be a good team member, and the future of work.

Ep. 45 10 Mar 2020
Vivek Menon - Leadermorphosis episode 44: Vivek Menon on ambidextrous organisations

Vivek Menon on ambidextrous organisations

Vivek Menon leads a high growth business unit at Danfoss Power Solutions called eSteering. Their purpose is to build the future steering solutions for off road vehicles. He shares how eSteering works without managers and why he thinks the future of organisations, especially large ones, is building the capacity to be ambidextrous – creating ecosystems where traditionally structured and decentralised teams or units can coexist. Vivek believes there are three components to develop when it comes to self-management: structures, processes, and mindset and behaviours.

Ep. 44 20 Feb 2020
Michael Y. Lee - Leadermorphosis episode 41: Michael Y. Lee on lessons from researching self-managing organisations

Michael Y. Lee on lessons from researching self-managing organisations

Michael Y. Lee is an Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD who researches novel and innovative ways of organising. After reading the paper he co-authored with Amy Edmondson on self-managing organisations, I wanted to talk to him to get his academic perspective on this phenomena. He shares what we can learn from self-managing organisations about leadership and how to collaborate in a more decentralised way without sacrificing coordination. We also discuss his research into the two key mechanisms that helped foster positive relational dynamics in a global distributed team.

Ep. 41 15 Dec 2019
Bryan Ungard - Leadermorphosis episode 40: Bryan Ungard on Decurion and Deliberately Developmental Organisations

Bryan Ungard on Decurion and Deliberately Developmental Organisations

Bryan Ungard is the Chief Purpose Officer at Decurion. Decurion is a parent company of a number of businesses, including movie theatres, real estate and senior living, but it's less famous for what it does and more for why and how it does it (as featured in the book “An Everyone Culture”). We talk about Deliberately Developmental Organisations, Bryan’s thoughts on why feedback can be dangerous, what he makes of the trend towards self-managing organisations, and how we can help our organisations become more conscious.

Ep. 40 6 Nov 2019
Edwin Jansen - Leadermorphosis episode 34: Edwin Jansen on how people adopt self-management at Fitzii

Edwin Jansen on how people adopt self-management at Fitzii

Edwin Jansen is Head of Marketing at Fitzii, a recruitment company based in Canada. We talk about the three stages of self-management adoption he’s noticed (Head, Heart, Habit) and why it’s so challenging for us human beings in the “messy middle” stage. Edwin also shares some practices that Fitzii has developed around “radical responsibility”, such as feedback, teal onboarding, and the Role Advice Process, as well as his own personal journey of transformation as a former manager.

Ep. 34 12 Jul 2019
Tom van der Lubbe - Leadermorphosis episode 28: Tom van der Lubbe on salaries and purpose in self-managing organisations

Tom van der Lubbe on salaries and purpose in self-managing organisations

Tom van der Lubbe, the co-founder of a small, Dutch mortgage advice company called Viisi, had an existential crisis at a young age and has been conscious of doing purposeful work ever since. We talk about the science of motivation and management and how Viisi has developed a simple but powerful approach to salaries. He also shares his thoughts on adapting the organisational self-management system Holacracy and how to create an honest feedback culture where the responsibility sits with teams and individuals, not managers.

Ep. 28 24 Feb 2019
Ted Rau - Leadermorphosis episode 27: Ted Rau on running organisations as equals with Sociocracy

Ted Rau on running organisations as equals with Sociocracy

Ted Rau is the co-founder of Sociocracy for All and co-author of the book Many Voices, One Song. In this conversation we talk about how we can distribute authority in organisations and relate to each other as equals using Sociocracy, the “power over, power under” tendencies we have as human beings, the paradoxes and shadow sides of Sociocracy to watch out for, and how we can implement such an approach without becoming "top-down". If you’re interested in transforming your organisation, but stepping into nothing feels daunting, or you’re curious about Sociocracy and what tools like consent-based decision making could make possible, then this episode is for you.

Ep. 27 6 Feb 2019
Sarah Houseman - Leadermorphosis episode 24: Sarah Houseman on new governance for the Anthropocene

Sarah Houseman on new governance for the Anthropocene

Researcher and entrepreneur Sarah Houseman shares insights from her PhD research into new governance systems in not for profit organisations. Looking at the lived experiences and practices of four non-hierarchical NGOs, we explore questions like “How we can see our organisations as systems?” and “How can we participate differently and unlearn dominative behaviours that have previously been rewarded in hierarchical organisations?” (The companies featured in her research are: Friends of the Earth Melbourne, Sustainable Economies Law Centre, The Pachamama Alliance and The Enspiral Foundation.)

Ep. 24 8 Nov 2018
Simon Mont - Leadermorphosis episode 19: Simon Mont from Harmonize on why changing the structures of organisations isn’t enough

Simon Mont from Harmonize on why changing the structures of organisations isn’t enough

Simon Mont, founder of Harmonize, talks about his article “Autopsy of a Failed Holacracy” and the debate it provoked. He believes that if we really want to reimagine our organisations, we need to look at individuals, the organisation, and the larger economic system – changing organisational structures alone isn’t enough. We talk about nonprofits, leadership, and how we can connect the dots across organisational transformation communities.

Ep. 19 4 Jun 2018
Marin Petrov, Christian Haniszewski, Martina Petkov, Miglena Chervenkova & Stefan Doychev - Leadermorphosis episode 15: People from Hack and Paint on self-management in a remote team

People from Hack and Paint on self-management in a remote team

Marin Petrov and Christian Haniszewski have worked at some of the most creative companies in the world but wanted to create their own company with freedom at its core. Thus, Hack and Paint was born. I talked to Marin, Christian and three of their teammates, Martina Petkov, Miglena Chervenkova, and Stefan Doychev, about the challenges of working in a self-managing team, especially when no one is based in the same country. In particular, we talk about the importance of personal development, being human, and their experiences of Holacracy practices.

Ep. 15 27 Mar 2018
Lotta Croiset van Uchelen - Leadermorphosis episode 11: Lotta Croiset van Uchelen from Schuberg Philis on self-steering teams and wholeness

Lotta Croiset van Uchelen from Schuberg Philis on self-steering teams and wholeness

IT infrastructure company Schuberg Philis has over 250 people and no managers. Lotta Croiset van Uchelen, Chief DNA Officer, and Daniela Resch, Wellbeing Researcher, talk about how engineers are organised in self-steering teams. They share examples of practices that are “hygienic”, dynamic systems as well as what the well-being researchers are discovering about current challenges and areas for improvement.

Ep. 11 23 Nov 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