Not in the tech field but in the consulting space, both Crisp https://dna.crisp.se and Enspiral https://enspiral.com came up with interesting organisational structures that they've extensively documented.
The fact that enspiral keeps coming up as an example tells me that doing this right is really hard; if it were easy there would be more examples people would mention, no?
edit: I hope it's clear I'm not trying to diminish the efforts, to the contrary!
Here's also an interview with Richard Bartlett on the matter:
I think the difficulty in finding other examples is reflective of the "emergent"/"meta modern"/"systems thinking" space being extremely heady to this day. The people there are good at conceptualizing how to maintain a well running group horizontally, but growing one anew requires a different set of skills and traits. Chiefly knowing what's important right now, whereas the emergent thinkers seem to get lost in the weeds of their thoughts and big words.
That field is also, in my humble experience, in a bind. Very few people outside of the coach/consulting sphere seem to talk about this as fervently as they do. I think mass adoption will require the concepts to be attractive and simple to people who may not be ardent supporters of the cause quite yet.
There's also a whole contingent of people who have built orgs that already do this, they just don't advertise themselves and do their work.
I think the next step is to deeply integrate the concepts of Enspiral and such into organisational design tools. Something like murmur.com but with a super low conceptual barrier to entry, that makes it obvious what the next distributed leadership shift is for a given group. That's what I'm developing, if you're curious contact me :)
black_puppydog|3 years ago
edit: I hope it's clear I'm not trying to diminish the efforts, to the contrary!
Here's also an interview with Richard Bartlett on the matter:
https://codepodcast.com/posts/2018-09-17-richard-bartlett-on...
And an episode from the General Intellect Unit podcast relating to this:
http://generalintellectunit.net/e/068-common-knowledge/
timinou|3 years ago
That field is also, in my humble experience, in a bind. Very few people outside of the coach/consulting sphere seem to talk about this as fervently as they do. I think mass adoption will require the concepts to be attractive and simple to people who may not be ardent supporters of the cause quite yet.
There's also a whole contingent of people who have built orgs that already do this, they just don't advertise themselves and do their work.
I think the next step is to deeply integrate the concepts of Enspiral and such into organisational design tools. Something like murmur.com but with a super low conceptual barrier to entry, that makes it obvious what the next distributed leadership shift is for a given group. That's what I'm developing, if you're curious contact me :)
evolve2k|3 years ago
People from many different organisations are attending, this stuff is definitely spreading.
https://www.doing.betterworktogether.co/
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