I started writing this book in 2017 to explore how companies…

A lot of the narratives about progressive companies are colored…

Suppose you have embraced the following three truths: To…

Making People fit to a defunct system is seldom a good idea

Are you tired of hearing about Agile, New Work, Lean, and Design…

Power, Power, Power

Configuring Companies with Work Designs - is what we do anyway- and what we should do more deliberately

A 2018 Essential Reading List

Effective Teams Part 6: Diversity and Stability

Effective Teams Part 5: Clear Boundaries

Effective Teams Part 3: Overview & Mission Command

We have reached "Peak Agile".

Part 1: Individual Effectiveness

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

Why Working Hard does not Really Matter in Business

The Case for Measuring Employee Engagement

The False Dichotomy between Accountability and Psychological Safety

How to Transition from a Traditional to a Liberated Company

How the Hard Facts of the Workplace Shape Every One of Us

A Map of Agile Organizational Practices Based on the Maturity Level of a Company

A Capability Maturity Model of Managing in the Digital Age

Great Results can be achieved by engaging individuals fully. But how can one do this at scale?

Ray Dalio manages 160 Billion$ based on liberated principles

Delegating Decision Making is a Great Way to Manage Knowledge Workers

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.

Part 8: A Comparison of Holacracy, Liberation and Management 3.0

Part 6: A Comparison of Holacracy, Liberation and Management 3.0

Part 4: Management actions in Liberated Companies, Holacracy and Management 3.0

Part 3: A Comparison of Holacracy, Liberation and Management 3.0

Part 1: The Missing Ingredient to Agile Organisations: A Management System

Management in the Digital Age = Freedom * Discipline * Autonomy * Accountability

The vibrancy of Startups. The relentless customer focus. The…

There are so many disastrous results of Companies going into…

2016 was a very special year in so many aspects. Trump, Brexit,…

How would HR look like if bright engineers where to design it…

Larry Page and Sergey Brin took a look at management theory…

Most companies do not have a strategy. There is consensus in…

An "exponential organization" as defined by Salim Ismael is a…

Digitalization! A battle cry in most companies these days. Before…

There is much here-say in management theory. For the most part,…

Suppose your organization is well organized. A stable, well…

Depending on Moore's zones of Management, IT needs to recognize…

Adopting the 3 systems of engagement/transaction/perception layers…

Corporate IT has a hard time doing anything right. In most companies…

The journey of a company towards digitalization has a unique…

This is going to be complex and abstract. Business people are…

Data itself is useless. It is the act that follows the interpretation…

Customer is king. And has been king ever since flint stone merchants…

Transformation is the art of changing something from status A…