The agile market initially faced a saturation point with many people pretending to understand agile without real knowledge. This led to a phase of disillusionment where agile was associated with ineffective management. However, the speaker believes in the profound principles of the agile manifesto, acknowledging its complexity and the need for experience. There is a new trend focusing on wellbeing, mindfulness, and psychological safety, partly accelerated by the pandemic's disruption of work habits and traditional gender roles. This shift reflects a growing awareness of people's interior experiences in the workplace.
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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