Whether you're teaching a piece of software or a concept, facilitating a workshop to hack on a project or product, or even organizing a donor night for your local nonprofit…
We live in an emerging globalized, mobile world of dispersed cloud workers. More than ever, we see individuals and organizations trading in their traditional offices to work…
In Japanese business discussions, one term appears again and again: "gemba." Over many years living and working for Japanese companies, I've probably heard the phrase "gemba…
Join us today for an #OpenOrgChat about Open Organizations on Main Street. Our community will gather on Twitter using the #OpenOrgChat hashtag at 2 p.m. Eastern (14:00 ET/19…
Our April 21 Twitter chat explored the implications of open organizational thinking for "Main Street" businesses. More than 40 community members chimed in. You'll find the…
On Thursday, February 18, the Open Organization community on Opensource.com gathered for its first #OpenOrgChat Twitter chat of 2016. We began the year with a robust…
There is and always shall be order in the universe. All things have order of some form. When we observe the murmuration of birds (flying in a swarm like pattern), we at first…
"It's important to recognize that informal leaders do emerge. And in less structured, less hierarchical organizations, they are a key part of the overall management system."…
Lately I've been knocking off a few books that have accumulated on my must-read list. One of my favorites is actually a recommendation from my technical sales professor at…
Some people call patience a virtue. To me, it's the single toughest lesson I had to learn when joining an open organization. It dawned on me recently in the middle of a class…
As individual job tenure in companies becomes shorter, leaders say goodbye to even their best people more frequently. How they do this—whether they celebrate or shun the…
Our Open Organization community gathered for another lively Twitter chat on Thursday, March 17. This time, we discussed "open organizations under the hood"—the nitty-gritty…