Excerpted with revisions from my upcoming book, Unmanaged: Master the Magic of Creating Empowered and Happy Organizations.
How well are your managers doing? In our upcoming research brief on workers
Leaders, executives, and managers can face the new normal with confidence knowing that there’s a new way for teams to work more productively. It’s called “pods” and it
A former RAND researcher shines light on the counter-intuitive yet proven path to being a great manager.
Welcome to the Unmanaging Revolution
In the bustling landscape of contemporary workplaces,
What Agile taught us about the effective leadership of knowledge-worker organizations
The Manifesto for Humanist Agile Organization and Culture
We believe there is a better way to manage. It
Peter Drucker is famous for pointing out how much better managers could manage if they only used numbers. His message to you: “…if you can’t measure it, you can’
Can you be a better manager by stepping back and letting teams manage themselves? As strange as this may sound, the answer is yes. Often managers stop all over the
The answer is a pretty-much unqualified “yes.” Does it need to be that way? Of course not, but it is not easy. Meetings were horrible prior to 2020, and
Many meetings are like unpleasant dinner guests who have come uninvited. They intrude on your productive time, drone on with unnecessary conversation, and you can’t wait for them to
You know less about managing than you think. These misperceptions and fallacies include theidea that managing creates productivity, that managers can solve everything, that more managing equals better managing, and
Even today, most organizations struggle with becoming “more agile.” Paradoxically, some of our failures as managers make Good Agile less likely to happen, and the way many choose to implement
We reached our 100th agency transformation milestone a month or so ago, and I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about what we have learned. Not everything went
