The Four Imperatives of Team Autonomy

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The book that what i'm doing is looking a lot at case studies at different companies like higher in manufacturing and WL Gore or companies like bird sorgh or all these different companies. What i'm trying to do though is not only tell their stories which we can learn a lot from but pull back the curtain on why are these companies succeeding. Four things really stood out to me the first was in all of these companies team autonomy seems to play a really central role whether it's micro enterprises at higher right they took their company of 80 000 people and broke it up into thousands and thousands of micro enterprise each of which are autonomous and self organizing.

“Intrinsic motivation is a great predictor of success. When people are doing things they feel intrinsically motivated to do, they tend to be much more successful."

Matt K. Parker is the author of “A Radical Enterprise”. In this episode, Matt started by sharing his views on the underlying causes of the great resignation trend, which includes the dominator hierarchies. Matt then explained in-depth the four key imperatives mentioned in his book that organizations must practice for establishing radical collaboration, which are: (i) team autonomy, (ii) managerial devolution, (iii) deficiency gratification, and (iv) candid vulnerability. Matt also touched on several other interesting concepts, such as how to establish autonomy while minimising chaos, the concept of a dynamic and contextual leadership, and a few alternatives for structuring the salary and compensation in a devolved organization.

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Career Journey - [00:05:14]
Great Resignation - [00:10:51]
Dominator Hierarchies - [00:15:26]
4 Imperatives - [00:19:12]
Imperative 1: Team Autonomy - [00:26:14]
Autonomy Without Chaos - [00:32:25]
Imperative 2: Managerial Devolution - [00:37:15]
Dynamic & Contextual Leadership - [00:41:46]
Salary & Compensation - [00:44:30]
Imperative 3: Deficiency Gratification - [00:50:49]
Imperative 4: Candid Vulnerability - [00:54:23]
Applying Radical Collaboration - [00:59:54]
3 Tech Lead Wisdom - [01:02:42]

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Matt K. Parker’s Bio
Matt K. Parker is a writer, speaker, researcher, and third-generation programmer. Over the last two decades, he’s played a variety of roles in the software industry, including developer, manager, director, and global head of engineering. He has specialized in hyper-iterative software practices for the last decade, and is currently researching the experience of radically collaborative software makers. He lives in a small village in Connecticut with his wife and three children.

Follow Matt:

Website – mattkparker.com
Twitter – @realMattKParker
LinkedIn – linkedin.com/in/matt-k-parker/
Email – matt@mattkparker.com

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