Ep. 96 Xavier Costa on lessons from self-managing organisations in Spain

Why does Spain appear to be a hotbed for progressive organisations lately? Xavier Costa shares three hypotheses: the implementation of the NER self-management approach in over 100 companies, a rich history of cooperatives, and a culture of innovation in the boundaries of Spain.

We also talk about lessons learned from Xavier’s experience of transforming companies, both with consultancy Full Circle Team, and investment fund Krisos, which buys and transforms companies. How do you rebalance salaries? How do you support former managers? And what is the ‘healing’ and personal transformation journey needed for self-organisation to work?

Resources:

• Full Circle Team website: https://www.fullcircleteam.es/

• Krisos website: https://krisos.eu/

• A Corporate Rebels blog about Indaero’s ‘no managers’ experiment

• My blog from a few years ago about the NER approach

• My colleague Karin Tenelius’ blog where she also interviewed Xavier about the new ways of working movement in Spain

• Related Leadermorphosis podcast episodes:

• Ep. 53 Dunia Reverter and Jabi Salcedo talk about the NER / K2K approach

• Ep. 60 Anna Thomson and David Baksh talk about La Fageda