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    Five Job Factors: Shifting Up Work Experience

    June 17, 2019 / No Comments
    Five Job Factors: Shifting up Work Experience

    Is there anything missing with your job, which keeps you away from being really happy with it? What is it, that would change your job significantly to the better? You might be surprised what is having most influence. Do your personal reality check! There are five job factors, which come to my mind, when considering…

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  • Organization Design

    10 Components for a Successful Self-Management Transformation

    June 8, 2018 / No Comments
    Self-Management Transformation
    10 Components That Successfully Abolished Hierarchy (In 70+ Companies)

    What are the ingredients for a successful self-management transformation? K2K Emocionado has successfully transformed 70 organizations. In a guest post at Corporate Rebels, Lisa Gill takes a closer look at them and how they do it.

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  • Organization Design

    Learning Organizations look at themselves rather than “something out there”

    June 4, 2018 / No Comments
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    At the heart of a learning organization is a shift of mind – from seeing ourselves as separate from the world to connected to the world, from seeing problems as caused by someone or something “out there” to seeing how our own actions create the problems we experience.

    Peter M. Senge

    Cite from the book The Fifth Discipline by Peter M. Senge.

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  • Organization Design

    Who gives purpose to a company?

    March 8, 2018 / No Comments
    People give purpose to a company

    A company is a group of individuals, running a business is giving a mutual purpose to them. Purpose is one key factor for motivated employees (other factors are autonomy and mastery). The first person in a company, the entrepreneur, starts a company from a vision. It provides the initial purpose. As people buy-in into the…

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  • Organization Design

    Planning a Hackathon? Read what others do

    March 3, 2018 / No Comments
    Computer screen of a participant of a hackathon
    Hackathon Projects by Big Companies: Foursquare, Paypal, Banco Sabadell

    More and more companies plan to make use of hackathon. They want to bring innovation and hidden talents to their organization. Too compelling are the various success stories, which are telling about fabulous results. They are delivered by people, who invest a small amount of their time into an inspiring challenge. The return on invest…

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  • [Article],  Organization Design

    Cross-Functional People

    January 31, 2018 / No Comments
    Cross-Functional Teams ask for Cross-Functional People

    Subject matter experts are silos - subject matter expertise needs to be shared. If experts are leaving a project, the subject stays. By then, if you are not able to close such a gap from within your organization, expertise needs to be bought from the outside. There is only one profound way to come around…

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  • Organization Design

    The four big Hs of an organization

    December 28, 2017 / No Comments
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    Every employee must be honest
    Every leader must be humble
    Every attitude must be human
    And the organization will be healthy

    Harald Dietrich

    Many people are talking about agile today. Decreasing costs, increasing speed and quality, and the urge to empower employees to contribute their full work force to the growth and success of an organization. Even though there is a great side effect of agile.

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  • [Article],  Organization Design

    Dare the impossible: Cross-functional teams with end to end ownership

    October 22, 2017 / No Comments
    Meetup Logo

    A write up of some exciting and astonishing discussions experienced in the Meetup "Dare the impossible: Cross-functional teams with end to end ownership" of the Agile Munich group.

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  • Organization Design

    Why Diverse Teams Are Smarter

    October 1, 2017 / No Comments
    Diverse Teams

    In recent years a body of research has revealed another, more nuanced benefit of workplace diversity: nonhomogenous teams are simply smarter. Working with people who are different from you may challenge your brain to overcome its stale ways of thinking and sharpen its performance. Let’s dig into why diverse teams are smarter. [button url=”https://hbr.org/2016/11/why-diverse-teams-are-smarter”  target=”_blank” size=”small”…

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  • Organization Design

    What is Agile? – from Structure to Mindset

    October 1, 2017 / No Comments
    What is Agile?

    Tools and processes stand in the middle of agile history. But over time it turned out that there is much more about agile. Today agile is to be seen as instrument for a learning organisation, which requires practices, principles, values, and in the end the right mindset of everyone working in an agile organization. from…

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  • Organization Design

    Ingredients for the Vital Organisation

    August 31, 2017 / 1 Comment
    The Vital Organization

    A vital organization has its own #IDENTITY for growing an understanding of the purpose. A vital organization has objectives driven from a shared #VISION and the collective #MOTIVATION to get there A vital organization considers the possibilities from the #DEMAND, work in #TEAMS, and #BESTPRACTICES A vital organization is about the people and their #CONTRIBUTION,…

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  • Organization Design

    Stupidity or Information Overload

    August 26, 2017 / No Comments

    The amount of information is growing tremendously day by day. Any kind of knowledge is encapsulated in articles, blog posts, status updates, or tweets. No one can believe that mankind is getting that smart that wisdom is being derived from that information overload – even not in the future. So what are the factors we…

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  • Organization Design

    Communication leads to community

    August 14, 2017 / No Comments

    Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

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  • [Article],  Organization Design

    Agile Organizational Transformation – Mind the People

    August 13, 2017 / No Comments
    Agile Organization - Mind the People

    When talking about agile and agility, we should not forget that we are talking a lot about culture, values, and identity. Irrespective if we start an agile transition from top to bottom or from bottom to top, we need to understand that we have to take a lot of people with us. For many it…

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  • [Article],  Organization Design

    Teams – the fundament for the agile way

    August 8, 2017 / No Comments
    Teams - the fundament for the agile way

    When we start to become more agile, we start to look at the mindset of people and how they collaborate. We are considering teams to be the fundament for growth and success. Conformity is no objective at all, contribution of individual talents to a group is what we strive for. Where diversity meets collaboration, you…

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