Leadermorphosis

Tom Nixon is an entrepreneur and coach who works with founders to help them realise their ideas, and supports organisations to reconnect them to their purpose. We talk about his latest venture Maptio which is a mapping tool for self-managing organisations. How do you avoid creative entropy as your company grows? How do you get people to step into their responsibility? What is the role of the founder or CEO? How to follow Tom: Twitter: @tomnixon Website: https://tomnixon.co.uk/ Book of the week: Reinventing Organizations by Frederic Laloux (again!)  Relevant links: Register to get access to the Maptio beta Tom’s blog about resolving the awkward paradox in Frederic Laloux’s Reinventing Organisations

Francesca Pick is a project manager, consultant and speaker that works on how tech can change business, society and human interaction. She is a Connector at OuiShare, which she describes as a lab for new ways of working, and her latest project is Cobudget, a collaborative funding tool. We talk about practices she and her colleagues have developed at OuiShare like Minimum Viable Bureaucracy and we debate whether organisations with no hierarchies exist. How to follow Francesca: Twitter: @francescapick Website: http://www.francescapick.com/ Book of the week: Reinventing Organizations: An Illustrated Invitation to Join the Conversation on Next-Stage Organizations by Frederic Laloux and Etienne Appert  Relevant links: Click here to buy tickets for OuiShare Fest in Paris, 5th-7th July Here’s the thought-provoking blog we talk about by Francesca: Cut the bullshit: organisations with no hierarchy don’t exist

This episode features Jurriaan Kamer, the founder of Agile CIO and member of The Ready. He helps organisations become adaptive, responsive, self-organising ecosystems by implementing new practices, structures, rhythms and technologies that enable transparency, openness, innovation and a progressive way of leading. We talk about agile, leadership and whether we need managers at all. How to follow Jurriaan: Twitter: @agile_cio Website: http://www.agilecio.net/ Book(s) of the week: "Lean Change Management: Innovative Practices For Managing Organizational Change" by Jason Little "How Google Works” by Eric Schmidt & Jonathan Rosenberg “Reinventing Organisations” by Frederic Laloux Other resources: Here’s Jurriaan’s blog: You will not become agile by implementing scrum And here’s the OS Canvas by The Ready mentioned in the episode This is Jurrian’s post about Schuberg Philis, the self-managing IT company with 200+ employees

Susan Basterfield is a Foundation Catalyst and Ambassador within the self-managing collective Enspiral and helps individuals and organisations worldwide experiment with new ways of working and being. She is also co-author of Reinventing Startups and has developed a a five-week immersive online programme called Practical Self-Management Intensive. We talk about self-management and learning through doing. How to follow Susan: Twitter: @opentogrow Blog: https://medium.com/@opentogrow Website: http://opentogrow.co.nz/ Book of the week: “An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organisation” by Robert Kegan & Lisa Laskow Lahey Other resources: Susan's latest Practical Self-Management Intensive course Here’s the website for Loomio, the collaborative decision-making tool Susan mentions they use in the self-management intensive Susan's blog about Enspiral's organisational refactor Here’s Jo Freeman’s piece on The Tyranny of Structurelessness The quote I mentioned (“Relationship work... is one of our evolutionary assignments”) comes from the book “Everything is Workable: A Zen Approach to Conflict Resolution” by Diane Musho Hamilton To learn more about Enspiral and how their Catalyst working group is set up, check out the Enspiral Handbook  

My guest this episode is Perry Timms, author of the book "Transformational HR" and a practitioner who has spent the last twenty years in technology, organisational change and HR. He is also a global and TEDx speaker on the future of work, and a WorldBlu® certified Freedom at Work Consultant and Coach, helping organisations work in more liberated, democratic ways. We talk about what the future of HR, and work, could look like.How to follow Perry: Twitter: @perrytimms Website: http://www.pthr.co.uk/ Book(s) of the week: “The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization” by Peter Senge “The Seventh Sense: Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks” by Joshua Cooper Ramo Other resources: Perry's book "Transformational HR" Perry's fantastic TEDx talk, “The Future of Work” The “Indian woman” I (rather ignorantly!) referred to in the podcast, interviewed in the documentary “Before the Flood”, is Sunita Narain. Here’s a link for more about her