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The five thieves of time are stealing your team's productivity: Too much WIP, Unknown Dependencies, Unplanned Work, Conflicting Priorities, and Neglected Work. Learn to stop them in my upcoming workshop! www.oreilly.com/live-events/...
10.08.2025 21:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Are stakeholder expectations crushing your team's morale? Learn to say "no" without damaging relationships. Join me for a 3-hour workshop where you'll gain practical WIP limiting techniques that drive predictability while protecting team sanity. www.oreilly.com/live-events/...
07.08.2025 21:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Improving your team's performance by just 1% daily compounds to 37x improvement in a year! Join me to learn how strategic "no" decisions can catalyze this transformation in your agile teams. Live online workshop coming soon!
07.08.2025 15:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Tending To Your Inner Landscape
Learn how to transform your inner landscape with neuroscience-backed practices for self-organization. Discover techniques to rewire prediction patterns, transform inner critics into allies, and build adaptive responses that strengthen both individual performance and…
Is your team drowning in too much WIP? Learn how to escape the "Doom Loop" of overcommitment in my upcoming workshop: The Strategic "No" for Agile Teams. Discover practical techniques to improve flow and deliver what truly matters. www.oreilly.com/live-events/...
05.08.2025 21:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
When you think about focusing, you think it's saying 'yes.' Nope. Focusing is about saying 'no.' Join my live workshop to master The Strategic "No" for Agile Teams. Protect team capacity, sanity, and unlock predictable value delivery!
05.08.2025 15:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Beyond the Lizard Brain: Nurturing Adaptive Teams
Discover why the "lizard brain" myth is holding your team back. Learn the Adaptive Brain Model and Four Quadrants framework for building self-organizing teams that thrive through neuroscience-informed practices, psychological safety, and ecosystem…
Communication Currents: How to Read and Enhance Your Team’s Information Flow
Learn to read your team's communication flow patterns and create conditions for healthy information currents. Practical techniques for leaders to improve team dynamics beyond the Kantor Four Player Model. The post…
Lessons in Self-Organization from the Fungus Among Us
Discover what forest fungi teach us about self-organization. Learn how slippery jacks, Indian pipes, and natural ecosystems show teams how to find their optimal conditions, form authentic partnerships, and thrive without hierarchical control.…
Netflix’s Organizational Resilience: Adaptation in a Changing Industry
Learn how Netflix evolved from DVD rental service to global content powerhouse by developing tide pool-inspired organizational adaptations including bounded autonomy, rhythmic change patterns, and productive constraint systems.…
Team Health: Moving Beyond Survival Mode
Is your team stuck in survival mode? With AI disruption and poly-crisis pressures hitting teams harder than ever, it's imperative to sense and respond to team engagement and health. The post Team Health: Moving Beyond Survival Mode appeared first on Andy…
IKEA’s 100-Year Vision: Inspired Leadership Evolution Across Generations
Explore how IKEA evolved from a mail-order business to a global phenomenon through forest-inspired principles of intergenerational leadership, mycorrhizal knowledge networks, and patient growth strategies spanning decades.…
From Gremlins to Gargoyles: Transforming Team Defensive Patterns into Collaborative Wisdom
Explore how teams can transform destructive patterns (gremlins) into protective wisdom (gargoyles) through psychological safety practices. Practical framework for recognizing and working with team defensive…
Spotify’s Organizational Evolution: From Hierarchy to Distributed Leadership
Discover how Spotify evolved its organizational structure from conventional hierarchy to distributed leadership through a savanna-inspired approach of collective intelligence, sentinel roles, and adaptive team structures.…
Redwing blackbird song
Joining the cool morning breeze
Greeting todays dawn
Hot coffee brews
Mind a stormy wildness
Bird song pierces through
Loose Change: When Regret Becomes Wisdom
A mouse-eaten bag of foreign currency becomes a meditation on regret, family patterns, and the art of letting go. Sometimes our "impulsive" decisions clear space for what wants to emerge The post Loose Change: When Regret Becomes Wisdom appeared first on…
How Buurtzorg Built a Self-Managing Organization
Explore how Buurtzorg evolved from a small nursing team to a revolutionary healthcare organization by implementing coral reef-inspired minimal structures that enable remarkable self-organization, autonomy, and resilience. The post How Buurtzorg…
Leadership Suggestions from a Cat
Discover how feline wisdom translates to powerful leadership principles in this illustrated exploration of strategic defiance, intentional rest, and boundless curiosity. Leadership lessons from an unexpected mentor. The post Leadership Suggestions from a Cat…
Perhaps the ultimate leadership paradox: creating truly distributed systems requires leaders willing to transcend their own egos—to find fulfillment in enabling a system's success rather than being personally indispensable to it.
15.05.2025 21:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Perhaps the ultimate leadership paradox: creating truly distributed systems requires leaders willing to transcend their own egos—to find fulfillment in enabling a system's success rather than being personally indispensable to it.
15.05.2025 15:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Epilogue: From Metaphor to Practice – Organizations Embracing Ecosystem Leadership
Discover how pioneering organizations like Buurtzorg, Patagonia, Toyota, and Valve implement ecological leadership principles, demonstrating that nature-inspired approaches create adaptable, innovative, and…
Different ecosystems distribute leadership differently based on their specific challenges. The optimal pattern depends on context—are you in a stable "forest" environment or a rapidly changing "tide pool" situation?
13.05.2025 21:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Termites build complex structures not by following blueprints but through "stigmergy"—responding to the current state of the environment itself. How might your workspace design and information radiators coordinate work without management overhead
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A starling murmuration demonstrates coordination far beyond what any individual bird could conceive. Systems can exhibit direction and purpose without centralized control when interaction rules and feedback loops are well-designed.
11.05.2025 21:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Limber Pine (Pinus flexilis) / Pine needles dancing / Canyon whispers ancient truths / Tree listens, adapts
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In nature, leadership is rarely concentrated in a single entity. There's no "CEO tree" directing forest growth. What if leadership isn't about authority positions but how direction and adaptation are woven throughout a system?
08.05.2025 21:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Tide pool leadership isn't about eliminating boundaries and cycles but designing ones that enable life to flourish amid constant change. What boundaries in your organization serve as fertile edges rather than limiting walls?
08.05.2025 15:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Leadership as a Distributed Function: How Ecosystems Distribute Leadership Across the System
Explore how natural ecosystems distribute leadership functions across entire systems, offering organizational models for emergent coordination, stigmergic communication, and building adaptive capacity…
