Dr. Lori Kane on the Magic of Self-Organizing Work Groups and the Collective Self
Doug Kirkpatrick interviewed Dr. Lori Kane of Collective Self, LLC, in December 2009 for the Self-Management Institute. Here is the complete transcript of that interview.
Change is Really Hard. Really.
For organizations and the people within them to become more self-managing, most organizations must change. These changes may include flattened hierarchies, distributed decision-making, empowerment programs and the like. But as noted by Blanchard researchers Pat Zigarma and Judd Hoestrka, as many as 70% of change efforts fail to achieve their purpose—an overwhelming number.
Book Review: The Starfish and the Spider
What industrial theory, web culture, the war on terror, the Great Barrier Reef and other seemingly random topics have to do with leaderless organizations.