Speaking

Public speaking, private corporate sessions, workshops, multi-day-offsites – if it's about helping teams work better (and produce better work), I'm there.

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The Founding Flaw of Matrix Organizing

Last year I was on a podcast with my friends at Zappi, and we got to talking about matrix orgs – there's an old bug inside the system, and it'll never go away.

Jan 11, 2023 4 min read
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Creating The Conditions

A corporate retreat day organized around three stories, three games, and three new practices.

Apr 12, 2017 7 min read
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On Organizational Learning for YCN

Last year while in London helping Joe set up August's London office – and to help celebrate Joe's wedding, hence the gravelly tone and greasy appearance – I stopped by YCN to do a quick interview about how we help organizations learn. 0:00 /3:00 1× Transcript

Feb 28, 2017 2 min read
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The New Model for Scaling a Company

Three old technologies (rule of law, market forces, and transparency) can help us move toward seven universal performance criteria for organizations: purpose; fitness; vitality; fairness; power; connection; safety.

Oct 8, 2015 10 min read
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Designing for Autonomy

Purposeful autonomy has been, and always will be, the main goal of organizing.

Apr 30, 2014 4 min read
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Smaller is Better: Web 2.0 2010

Alex and I were fortunate enough to be able to present something at Web 2.0 on Thursday of last week, and I’m happy to report that it went off without a hitch. We spoke about a topic that we’ve both been passionate about for quite some time:

Oct 2, 2010 6 min read