


Corona is Blitzkrieg. Fighting The Climate Catastrophe is a War of Attrition.
Why the Corona crisis might prove to be just what we need to kick-off a much larger and even deadlier fight

Liberated Companies - The Book
I started writing this book in 2017 to explore how companies…

What The Extinction Crisis Means To Businesses
Business people! Why are we still talking about anything else…

The Do-Good Ideology of New Work
A lot of the narratives about progressive companies are colored…

Why Liberating Companies Is a Bad Idea
There are excellent reasons to be suspicious about an author…


A Beginners Guide to Liberated Companies
“Liberated Companies” is a new approach to organize companies…

Why I don't like Coaching. Do you?
Making People fit to a defunct system is seldom a good idea

The Trajectory of Technology
"Liberated Companies - How to Create Vibrant Organizations in…

Book Announcement: Liberated Companies
Are you tired of hearing about Agile, New Work, Lean, and Design…



How is the worlds most successful Hedgefund organized?
An analysis of Bridgewaters configuration of work designs.

200 Work Designs on a Map
Configuring Companies with Work Designs - is what we do anyway- and what we should do more deliberately

I Was Wrong: Holacracy is The Thing!
Understanding Holacracy is crucial in the Digital Age



How to Defeat "Best of the Best" Teams Consistently
Effective Teams Part 6: Diversity and Stability

How to Defeat "Best of the Best" Teams Consistently
Effective Teams Part 6: Diversity and Stability

Forget about AGILE! Reduce Overbearance in Management first
Effective Teams Part 5: Clear Boundaries






You call yourself a Great Manager? Let Me Hear Your Theory of Performance!
Part 1: Individual Effectiveness

Book Review: Principles. By Ray Dalio
The Master of the Universe itself speaks out about Management

Experimental Management
Why the arch-capitalistic quest for performance might just end up liberating people

The Main Managerial Fallacy and the Full Stack Manager
A Better Frame for the Profession of Management

Great Individual Performance needs a Serendipitous Work Environment
Why Working Hard does not Really Matter in Business


Stop Denying Reality and Start Measuring Employee Engagement Now
The Case for Measuring Employee Engagement

A Recipe for High Performance: Combine Tough Accountability & Wise Fairness
The False Dichotomy between Accountability and Psychological Safety

A Recipe for High Performance: Combine Tough Accountability & Wise Fairness
The False Dichotomy between Accountability and Psychological Safety

Can Agile, Liberated Organizations Succeed in Overturning the Status Quo?
Being a Great Company is optional



Management Debt and Organizational Entropy
How the Hard Facts of the Workplace Shape Every One of Us

Going Native: The Best Way to Link Traditional Companies and Start-ups
Big Companies find it difficult to deal with internal Startups or Innovations Centers. Here is some guidance.

76 Agile Workouts & A Fish
A Map of Agile Organizational Practices Based on the Maturity Level of a Company

76 Agile Workouts & A Fish
A Map of Agile Organizational Practices Based on the Maturity Level of a Company

4 Steps to Release the Full Potential of Organizations
A Capability Maturity Model of Managing in the Digital Age


Adopting Self-Management: Big Bang or Baby Steps?
Great Results can be achieved by engaging individuals fully. But how can one do this at scale?

What can be done to maximize the use of Collective Intelligence?
A Meeting Revolution spearheaded by the Worlds most Successful Hedge Fund

The World's Leading Hedgefund is Relying on Key Principles of Self-Managed Organizations
Ray Dalio manages 160 Billion$ based on liberated principles

The World's Leading Hedgefund is Relying on Key Principles of Self-Managed Organizations
Ray Dalio manages 160 Billion$ based on liberated principles

Delegation on Steroids
Delegating Decision Making is a Great Way to Manage Knowledge Workers

How to move step by step towards Self-Management
Does it really need a big bang to move towards Self-Management?

What kind of Organization do modern Companies aspire to be?
The earlier and the more managers accept that more self-management is the new reality of effective management, the more successful their digitalization efforts will be.

The Startup Way by Eric Ries - Book review
What the founder of the "Lean Startup" has to say about Management in the Digital Age

Moving an Organisation to Self Management
Part 8: A Comparison of Holacracy, Liberation and Management 3.0

Worlds next Top Organizational Model
Part 7: A Comparison of Liberation, Holacracy, and Management 3.0

Why the Climb is more important than the Summit: Jobs and Motivation.
Part 6: A Comparison of Holacracy, Liberation and Management 3.0

A Message to Managers: Keep your Hands off but your Eyes on!
Part 5: The Role of Communication in Modern Management Systems

Why Management still matters - even in organizations with flat hierarchies
Part 4: Management actions in Liberated Companies, Holacracy and Management 3.0

Create a Strategy for your Unit
Stop making frameworks - start making guides!
This battle cry…

Leadership and Structure: What has changed with the Digital Age
Part 3: A Comparison of Holacracy, Liberation and Management 3.0

The Foundations of Holacracy, Liberated Companies and Management 3.0
Part 2: 5 Shared Foundations of Modern Management Systems

Holacracy, Liberation and Management 3.0
Part 1: The Missing Ingredient to Agile Organisations: A Management System

A new Ideology of Management - part II
The leap towards a new set of normative beliefs and values, a…

A New Ideology for Management in the Digital Age
Management in the Digital Age = Freedom * Discipline * Autonomy * Accountability

Big Tax Cut! Flatten the Management Hierarchy
How to save a lot of Money while increasing Performance at the same Time

How to Transform IT into a Start-up?
The vibrancy of Startups. The relentless customer focus. The…

What are the 3 Essentials of Project Management?
Suppose you want to do something sizeable, which requires the…

How would an E-Commerce Company get into Retail? - Part 2
There are so many disastrous results of Companies going into…

How would an E-Commerce Company get into Retail? Part 1/2
Up to now, only a few pure online Shops dared to venture into…

Bring it on! The 2016+ Challenge
2016 was a very special year in so many aspects. Trump, Brexit,…

A 4 Step IT Manifesto - without the boring Bits
IT departments are boring. In the time of vibrant start-ups,…

Hiring like a Pro: Lessons from Google
How would HR look like if bright engineers where to design it…

Good Managers - Good Teams: Lessons from Google
Is management important to a organisations success? How much…

What Google Inc. has to teach about Management
Larry Page and Sergey Brin took a look at management theory…

The Doom Loop of Strategic Inaptitude
The bullet is coming. It is coming straight at your company.…

Sources of Strategic Inaptitude
Most companies do not have a strategy. There is consensus in…

7 Signs of Ethical Failure: Good and Bad organizational Politics
No politics! Politics is perceived to be a shady, back-room dealing,…

Exponential Organizations - a way forward for traditional companies?
An "exponential organization" as defined by Salim Ismael is a…

Abundance will transform the world
If the classical models of organization are not sufficient to…

Going digital? Learn the economic laws of Information first
Digitalization! A battle cry in most companies these days. Before…

Whats your companies level of ignorance?
If management is a craft that can be learned and perfected over…

Social Physics: The Revival of Science in Management
There is much here-say in management theory. For the most part,…

Execute crisply with sharp tools
What is the use of having a strategy when you do not have the…

9 reasons why your organization might be left behind
Suppose your organization is well organized. A stable, well…

Tired of hierarchy? Try this
Hierarchies suck. In so many respects: They are slow-moving,…


You are playing the wrong game! Learn to zone.
Most companies are struggling with innovation. Management is…

Get into the Flow! The way forward for IT (part II)
Adopting the 3 systems of engagement/transaction/perception layers…

Innovation-ready-IT: The way forward for IT
A company can escape the cycle of stuttered innovation and start…

The sorry state of IT departments contribution to Innovation (Part II)
Corporate IT has a hard time doing anything right. In most companies…

Can IT departments get anything straight? (Part I)
A company can stop any further discussion on digital transformation…

Do not get lost in Mirkwood! Starting the journey to digitalize your company
The journey of a company towards digitalization has a unique…

Force 5: Culture (continued): Xaomi, Spotify, Amazon and gov.uk
If Culture is the key to Digitalization, what examples are out…


Force 4: New Work organization
Focus on the targets that really matter, speed, decisions taken…


Force 2: It's the Customer, stupid!
Customer is king. And has been king ever since flint stone merchants…

Force 2: It's the Customer, stupid!
Customer is king. And has been king ever since flint stone merchants…

Force 1: The use of Information Technology - a no brainer?
The use of information technology is such a no brainer today…

What makes Digitalization different from "ordinary" business transformation?
Transformation is the art of changing something from status A…

What makes Digitalization different from "ordinary" business transformation?
Transformation is the art of changing something from status A…