The ready has changed its structure and because in two different companies, my work has been exclusively lately at the team of teams level. I've been working with a team of teams where there are leaders from a bunch of different places that come together around a topic or a thing but otherwise don't really interact. And so I've been like really fiddling with what a Tots rhythm could look like. To me, this is the equivalent of the great idea you write down when you wake up from a dream and then you look at it in the morning.
We’ve talked a lot about action meetings on the show. And retrospectives. And governance. And strategy sessions. Maybe you’ve wondered, “What do these meetings have to do with one another? How do they actually interact? Do they?”
We’re glad you asked. Because when woven together, they constitute an organization’s operating rhythm—or heartbeat. And sweating the design of that pulse—intentionally building the structural relationship from beat to beat—is what allows teams to unlock their most important work and make progress.
In this episode of Brave New Work, Aaron Dignan and Rodney Evans break down an OG operating rhythm’s fundamental parts, explore how it enables a system to move work forward, and dish about the fruits (greater clarity, efficiency, and accountability to name a few) of this labor.
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