Self-managing teams & organizations

The Network Dynamics that Shaped TED

Manel Heredero

Little study of the growth of TED with a network lens

Happy Money Story: How it happens in Greaterthan and what ripples it creates!

Ashish Arora

In this article, the author shares his insights on how the practice of Happy Money Story is transforming Greaterthan as an organization

Are You Winning Or Losing?

Sally McCutchion

Some thoughts on the binary nature of how society has evolved and the harm it's causing, even to the winners.

Embodiment- why does it matter for organizations?

Ashish Arora

This article is the author's attempt to highlight how embodiment is important for organizations, particularly when it comes to creating safe spaces or inspiring people to collaborate.

Signs that you are blocking self management in your organisation

Ashish Arora

The article explores how the founders of the organisations sometimes end up becoming a block for their transition towards self-management. It also provides insights on how to work around such blindspots. The article is based on the author's work with clients in India.

We Need To Talk About Compensation

Sally McCutchion

There is an historical precedent that says talking about money is uncouth, impolite or improper. Our view is this precedent is outdated. Join Sally McCutchion in this article, with her key principles around compensation, salary transparency and impact levelling.

Where Do Why Be?

Elena Denaro, David Weingartner, Tomomi Sasaki, Manel Heredero

Creating the guide to Greaterthan’s practice

Recruitment in a Distributed Organisation

by Manel Heredero

This is the story of in99, a small legaltech startup, that put in place a process to recruit high-quality professionals without a HR department and without one-on-one interviews. Doing this is part of their journey towards what they call a “Distributed Future”, which includes, amongst other things, becoming a Remote First company.

Agile Team in BlackwoodSeven

Francesca Pick

Read about how the marketing agency BlackwoodSeven experimented with Cobudget.

Rethinking Organizations: Human Services

Susan Basterfield

Rethinking Organisations enabled Support Providers in Western Australia to explore alternative organisational theory and practices that could potentially benefit the human services sector. This resource shares the outcomes and learnings from this project.

Make Things That Matter with Andrew Skotzko

Susan Basterfield

Susan Basterfield shares her experience with decentralized team structures and participatory decision-making.

Leadermorphosis Podcast

Lisa Gill

Leadermorphosis is a podcast exploring the emerging world of self-management and progressive organisations. Hosted by Lisa Gill, each episode features a guest thought leader or practitioner offering a unique perspective on new and innovative ways of working.

Cut the bullshit: organizations with no hierarchy don’t exist

by Francesca Pick

Do completely horizontal organizations truly exist? Fueled by excitement about self-management, bossless leadership and models such as Holacracy, we increasingly hear unrealistic claims about the potential of “flat organizations”.

Reinventing Business Education

by Susan Basterfield

We have a choice about how we want to work. Will we settle for the old paradigm of the corporation, or have we mustered the courage to create new systems that better reflect our needs and potential?

Work with Source

Tom Nixon

Realise big ideas, organise for emergence and work artfully with money. A guide based on Peter Koenig's "Source Principles".

Moose Heads on the Table

Lisa Gill

What does leadership look like in a company with no bosses? How do you develop a culture that allows self-managing organisations to thrive? In this book, Lisa Gill and Karin Tenelius share stories and insights from nearly twenty years of coaching teams and organisations to become self-managing.

Lead Together

Susan Basterfield, Travis Marsh, Brent Lowe

Lead Together illuminates practices from the leaders of more than sixty scaling businesses at the vanguard of this movement about the on-the-ground challenges and rewards of adopting a new paradigm for work.

Maptio

Tom Nixon

The simplest way to visualise self-managing organizations: Circles, People, Roles

Wise Agenda

Elena Denaro

A useful team meeting template that helps you create a dynamic and collectively held agenda. Adapted from Percolab.