I did not post anything for about a year now. This changed today with the publication of How to Build a Software Company on Medium. This is a part of a series of articles by several authors trying to answer: How to build a technology company? Check it out! What happened this year 2020 regarding […]
Why the Corona crisis might prove to be just what we need to kick-off a much larger and even deadlier fight
I started writing this book in 2017 to explore how companies can truly “go digital”. As a former CIO I knew that technologies, however powerful they are, are fiendishly hard to get to work at their full potential. The more my thoughts matured, the more I realized that a company is to benefit from technology, […]
Business people! Why are we still talking about anything else than the global extinction crisis? We are heading not for a disaster or catastrophe but to the very extinguishing of life. The last five years alone have all been the warmest on record. Species of all kinds die off at an ever-increasing rate. Insects are […]
A lot of the narratives about progressive companies are colored with positive moral statements about how work should be organized. While this is certainly inspirational, I always suspect these statements to be misleading. Isn’t it better to have a cold, more rational view of businesses? A Normative Canon of New Work Last week, I came […]
There are excellent reasons to be suspicious about an author who sets out to blast his own work, so you should certainly take this with a grain of salt. Still, what you will find in this post is an honest attempt to critique the thoughts spelled out in the soon to be released book “Liberated […]
Suppose you have embraced the following three truths: To truly engage people, with all their capabilities you need to distribute power between people more equally To truly utilize technology, with all the unique solutions it can provide, you need to unleash the creative problem-solving potential of people at all levels in an organization Psychological Safety, […]
“Liberated Companies” is a new approach to organize companies or teams. Its unique perspective is to make the work designs- i.e., those structures, processes, and routines used to collaborate inside an organization- explicit and evolve them. Every company uses work designs: Meetings, decision-making, task allocation, information and communication, performance management, project methods, and business processes. […]
Making People fit to a defunct system is seldom a good idea
“Liberated Companies – How to Create Vibrant Organizations in the Digital Age” will be published at the end of this month. The book begins with turning a question that many company leaders ask on it’s head: I hope you like the following excerpt. Chapter One: The Trajectory of Technology So, you tell me that you […]
