Buurtzorg (or the potential seed?) Frederic Laloux might have done a thing or two in order to accelerate management (r)evolution with his book Reinventing Organizations. In my humble opinion his main (and timelessly awesome) contribution has been to cast a smart and focused light on some organizations many of us […]
Here is a new idea for you, my friend facilitator, to try out in your next retrospectives. The core of format is based in a tool from my ORSC teachers from CRR and Augere, and I added some ideas over it. I have already applied this format a couple of times with success in authentic multidisciplinary […]
This is the second article of the retrospective series, I hope you enjoy it, find it useful and can apply it with your team soon. Please, leave some feedback when this actually happens! This retrospective is titled “Heaven and Hell”, soon you will learn why… USE This is a good retrospective […]
This is the first of a series of articles we will be posting in our blog about retrospectives formats, tips and advices. We will start with one based in “le tour de France”. Here is a link to the second of the series. USE This retrospective is specially created to […]
It is a great concept this multidisciplinary thing: Create a single team with all the different people required to deliver a service, instead of having different knowledge areas doing their part independently. Make them work at the same pace. Have them focus on the same goal at a given moment. […]
Last February 2015, José Ramón Díaz and myself finished our Belbin Roles Accreditation Course. We had already used this technique, helping other accredited professionals to run the exercises with some of the teams we were coaching. After all this period, we can say that we find it a very useful and powerful […]
Last week I had to facilitate a retrospective with 90 people from the same company. I have to say that it was very challenging to be just one facilitator. I could count on the help of great guys to prepare it, and 2 people inside the organization supported me during the […]
Entre los tantos miedos que pueblan mi vida, el miedo al trabajo mecánico es sin duda uno de los que me acompaña hace ya décadas. Tal vez producto de mi ansiedad y neofilia, camino por el mundo buscando novedad, cambio y sorpresa. Cuando Tobias me preguntó si quería traducir The […]
Opresión corporativa Opresión: Carga impuesta de manera injustificable sobre algún individuo o grupo, que se lleva a cabo luego de interferir con su poder, intereses u oportunidades. La opresión puede ser intencionada o resultado involuntario de una cierta disposición social; puede ser reconocida como tal, o puede resultar inadvertida por […]
Liquid Organizations (aka “LiquidOrgs”) is just an idea, for now. LiquidOrgs has three legs, for now. LiquidOrgs try to take agility to the actual definition of the organisation. The three big questions I’d like LiquidOrgs to answer are: Who’s the owner (aka who gets the money) Who makes decisions Who’s in and who’s out […]