Episodes about leadership without hierarchy

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Ruth Waterfield and Taryn Burden and Philippa Kindon - Leadermorphosis episode 82: Ruth, Taryn and Philippa from Mayden, a health tech company that's Made Without Managers

Ruth, Taryn and Philippa from Mayden, a health tech company that's Made Without Managers

Three authors of the book ‘Made Without Managers: One Company’s Journey to New Ways of Working’ join me to talk about what they have learned at Mayden, a cloud based health tech solutions organisation in the UK. Ruth Waterfield (developer and scrum master), Taryn Burden (product owner of Mayden’s new ways of working) and Philippa Kindon (coach) share how Mayden’s ways of working have evolved over the years, including what career progression looks like, the role of directors in a bossless organisation, and what have been their biggest challenges.

Ep. 82 11 Jan 2023

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

Manuel Küblböck on models for self-organisation at Gini

Manuel Küblböck is an org design and transformation coach at German fintech company Gini. We talk about the models Gini has developed for self-organisation and how they have defined together terms like power, hierarchy, and autonomy. He also shares challenges like how to foster leadership in a self-organising company, how to make decisions effectively together and how to develop healthy relationships within the team.

Ep. 36 3 Sept 2019