The next wave after agile management is focused on considering the whole human being, not just their professional persona. It involves paying attention to psychological safety, mindfulness, and wellbeing, particularly in light of societal currents and the pandemic. Google's Project Aristotle emphasizes that psychological safety, where individuals feel safe to take risks and be vulnerable, is the key to building high-performing teams. The shift from agile management to human-centered management involves iterating on a culture of honesty, safety, candor, and mutual respect, rather than iterating on a culture of fear and withholding.
In this episode we speak with Richard Bartlett, co-founder of the tech cooperative Loomio, and The Hum, management consultancy for organizations without managers. In the conversation, we cover his history and experience with patterns of decentralized organizing picked up from the punk scene and Occupy Wellington in the early 2010s, what he learned from those patterns, and how he co-created new organizational structures that put them into play with his co-founders and fellow workers. This episode will be particularly interesting for listeners who want practical advice on how to organize in DAOs, cooperatives, and other organizational forms that seek to work in non-hierarchical ways, but still get meaningful work done.
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