This is the organizational challenge for the next years: moving from hierarchical controlled entities to more self-organized teams. This is an educational challenge. How to convince, to motivate, to explain. I use a specific metaphor to explain this shift. When roads cross, you can assign a traffic policeman to direct the traffic. You can also …
You can limit your team’s room to operate. By giving them detailed instructions what to do, by giving them very fixed and tight constraints, you can drive them into a funnel of efficiency. It’s like a bobsled track. The less room you have to move sideways, the faster you go. But what happens if you …
In this video chat I am thrilled to talk to Esther Derby. We talk about self-organization in teams. What is it? What is it not? What’s the role of a manager in a self-organizing team? Esther is one of the rare breed of consultant who blends the technical issues, and the managerial issues with the …
The Second Turn of “The Four Dharmas Of Project Management” is titled “Structure For Resilience”. In this view a project is a human system working towards a desired goal. However, the project is running within an environment that is changing continuously. The project needs ways to deal with these changes and still keep performing its …
by Ali Anani and Bas de Baar In Fish And OODA Loops we introduced fish schooling as an important part of the Fish Pond Metaphor. Schooling mimics human tendency to organize and view our selves in groups of people. This leaves the question of how individual fish operate within a school resulting in one organic …