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LeadermorphosisAbhijith HK and Vidhya Abhijith from Codewave on scaling culture without hierarchyAbhijith HK and Vidhya Abhijith are co-founders of Codewave, a digital innovation company in India with over 200 employees and zero hierarchy. In this episode, we explore how they built a self-managing organisation from intuition, their peer-based feedback system called Peerly, and how they moved from "ruinous empathy" to radical candor. We also discuss scaling through "Fractas" (mini startups within the company), staying bootstrapped to protect culture, and the personal growth required of founders on this journey. Resources: Link to Codewave's handbook Corporate Rebels' blog about Codewave Related Leadermorphosis episodes: ...
2026-01-211h 05
New World in the MakingWhy the Old Work Model Doesn't Work Anymore - Lisa GillIn this conversation, I sit down with Lisa Gill, facilitator, coach, and host of Leadermorphosis, to explore what it really means to move toward radically decentralized organizations and why this shift is as much inner as it is structural.We explore why traditional hierarchies are struggling, how consent-based and advice processes change the way decisions are made, and why trust and accountability are not opposites but deeply interconnected. We also talk about psychological safety, discomfort as a catalyst for growth, and the inner maturity required to work without control....
2025-12-181h 28
LeadermorphosisEva, Trevor and Kajsa from Tuff on the messy beauty of working in a self-managing organisationFor episode 100, Lisa talks with her colleagues Eva Vilella, Trevor Hudson, and Kajsa Thelander Sadio from Tuff Leadership Training about what it's really like to work inside a self-managing organisation. They explore how working at Tuff has transformed each of them, their culture of continuous development with practices like "pebbles" and "mooseheads," and the genuine challenges alongside the beauty – from coordination difficulties to the loneliness of autonomy. A rare inside look at self-management with all its complexity, humor, and humanity. Resources: Moose Heads on the Table – book by Lisa and Karin from Tuff Lisa...
2025-12-051h 20
Boundaryless Conversations Podcast#129 - Why I Don’t Call it “Self-Management” Anymore - with Lisa GillLisa Gill - a coach, facilitator, and host of the acclaimed Leadermorphosis podcast - joins us to explore the evolving world of self-managing organisations.Drawing on over a decade of experience and examples from companies like Buurtzorg and her own work at TUFF Leadership, Lisa speaks about what makes radically decentralised organisations work: dynamic hierarchies, enabling structures, and accountability without coercion.Drawing on lessons from allied fields such as social justice and disability justice, she emphasises that accountability is a relational practice rather than a top-down mechanism, and that true accountability requires choice, trust, and transparent communication....
2025-11-2548 min
Unbossing LeadershipUnbossing Leadership with Lisa Gill - How to Unlearn Control and Build Self-Managed TeamsIn this next episode of Unbossing Leadership, I’m thrilled to be joined by 𝗟𝗶𝘀𝗮 𝗚𝗶𝗹𝗹 - 𝗰𝗼-𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗠𝗼𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲, 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗧𝘂𝗳𝗳 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴, and host of the acclaimed Leadermorphosis podcast.Lisa is a pioneer in helping organizations unlearn outdated hierarchies and step into self-management, distributed leadership, and radical responsibility.If 𝘆𝗼𝘂’𝗿𝗲 𝗮 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿, 𝗰𝗼𝗮𝗰𝗵, 𝗛𝗥 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹, 𝗼𝗿 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲-𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿 hungry for more human, more adaptive ways of working — this is your invitation.Come with your questions. Leave with clarity and courage.We’ll explore: • Why most “new ways of working” fail — and what to do differently • The mindset shift from leading with control to leading with presence • Stories and lessons from real teams making self-management work • What it really takes to unboss your organization — without chaos
2025-09-191h 01
LeadermorphosisPerttu Salovaara on Radically Decentralised Organisations and leaderless leadershipIf we want to practise alternatives to hierarchy, what needs to be in place? Perttu has twenty years' experience as an organisational consultant and I've been really enjoying his research papers on Radically Decentralised Organisations. We talk about the four things needed for a Radically Decentralised Organisation to be sustainable, leaderless leadership, group dynamics we need to be aware of, and some interesting case studies in Finland, particularly in the public sector. Resources: Perttu's paper, "Leaderless Leadership in Radically Decentralised Organisations" https://www.researchgate.net/publication/380008457_Leaderless_leadership_in_radically_decentralized_organizations
2025-09-081h 21
LeadermorphosisTimea Kristof on the factors for a successful succession processHanding the baton over to someone else can be risky, especially when it's your company you're handing over. Timea Kristof shares her research on six key factors necessary for a successful succession process to happen, and one of the most important factors might surprise you. It's love. Timea shares insights from her research, including examples of organisations she interviewed such as a family business with three generations of failed successions, as well as her own lived experience of handovers. We also discuss Peter Koenig's Source Work and how this is a helpful lens when thinking about succession...
2025-08-081h 10
LeadermorphosisAllan Rhodes on organisational gardening and KonsileoAllan Rhodes is Chief People Officer at teal-inspired insurance broker Konsileo. He shares what he's learned over the last three years about helping to design a self-managing organisation, including how to onboard people into a totally new way of working. We also talk about his favourite metaphor of organisational gardening. We can be inspired by other gardens and gardeners, but what will grow best in our unique soil and climate? Allan has dual nationality as a Mexican Englishman so he shares observations on the two cultures having experienced communities exploring progressive ways of organising in both Latin...
2025-07-251h 10
LeadermorphosisXavier Costa on lessons from self-managing organisations in SpainWhy does Spain appear to be a hotbed for progressive organisations lately? Xavier Costa shares three hypotheses: the implementation of the NER self-management approach in over 100 companies, a rich history of cooperatives, and a culture of innovation in the boundaries of Spain. We also talk about lessons learned from Xavier's experience of transforming companies, both with consultancy Full Circle Team, and investment fund Krisos, which buys and transforms companies. How do you rebalance salaries? How do you support former managers? And what is the 'healing' and personal transformation journey needed for self-organisation to work? Resources:
2025-07-101h 10
FIKA Friday At the OfficeFIKA Friday At the Office with Lisa GillHola Amigos,We start 2025 with a brand new season of the FIKA Friday At The Office podcast, featuring our guest Lisa Gill , acclaimed Coach and Trainer at Tuff Leadership Training and host of the "Leadermorphosis" podcast✨In this episode, Lisa unpacks:• The rise of self-managing teams and radical transparency.• Why equal relationships are essential for improving workplace dynamics.• The shift in workplace expectations post-pandemic.• How data and real feedback can guide meaningful change. "It's like the best of times and the worst of times in my field, the new wa...
2025-01-2432 min
Rethink CultureS02E18 Creating a Safe Space that Loves the 5-Year-Old You and Helps them Grow , with Lisa Gill"I always hesitate a bit when organizations are like, happiness, happiness, happiness… because our pitfalls will never go away… I will always have those pitfalls. But if I can become conscious and intentional, then I can start to own my pitfalls instead of my pitfalls owning me. And I can start to take responsibility for them… We can talk about it together and no one ever punishes someone for being in their pitfall… We might lovingly make someone aware of it, give them feedback or encourage them… In one of our value statements we say, we see the five-year-old you and we...
2024-07-1951 min
LeadermorphosisTamila Gresham and Simon Mont from Harmonize on new ways of seeing, being and working togetherThe way groups are working together is not working. But introducing new structures alone is not enough. Tamila and Simon talk to me about how we need to develop our ways of seeing, being and working together if we want to act in the highest possible alignment with our vision. A key part of this is using the lens of Power, Belonging and Justice (PBJ) and strengthening our muscle in Conflict Resilience. Strap in for some powerful wisdom, giggles and deep learning. Harmonize is a worker-owned cooperative that helps groups work together through Comprehensive Organizational Development and...
2024-05-2157 min
LeadermorphosisTirzah Enumah and Mike Arauz from August Public Inc. on psychological safety, equity and inclusionIn this episode we talk all about psychological safety – the misconceptions, what it actually means in practice, what we can learn about it through an equity lens, and how we can design organisational structures that support it (like decision-making protocols). We also talk about how August does onboarding and creates an adult learning environment through feedback, peer reviews and the role of a 'Development Advocate', plus how they relate to the 'new ways of working' movement right now. Tirzah and Mike are teammates at August Public Inc., an organisation and leadership development and change management fi...
2024-02-2855 min
LeadermorphosisMiki Kashtan and Emma Quayle from NGL on the capacity lens as a path to reinvent ourselves and our organisationsMiki is the seed founder and Emma a founding member of the Nonviolent Global Liberation community (NGL), which runs entirely as a gift economy. They and NGL as a whole are knee-deep in visionary experimentation about what it would take to realign humanity with life through online and community living experiments. Even without bosses we can still struggle to embody new ways of being together because of our internalised systems of patriarchal conditioning and capitalist thinking. The capacity lens gives us a way to examine this and make more conscious choices together. As Miki puts it, "Everyone...
2024-02-0153 min
LeadermorphosisMiquel, Blanca and Pau from Deerns Spain on becoming a self-managing engineering companyDeerns Spain, a team of around 60 engineers, has been on a transformation journey since March 2020. Inspired by K2K Emocionando, they now work without managers which means that everyone is "creating our company all the time". I talked to Miquel Castellvi (General Coordinator), Blanca Capdevila (People & Culture) and Pau Riera (Commitment Coordinator) who shared stories about how they changed their organisational structure, their self-managing salary process, giving feedback and dealing with conflicts, and the role of the Values and Culture team. Resources: Deerns Spain website Article in El Pais about Deerns Spain and...
2023-09-261h 05
Inspirational Insights to Action PodcastLisa Gill is turning self-managed teams from a good idea into realityLisa Gill is a self-managing organizations coach and trainer, writer, and Leadermorphosis podcast host talks about the inner work needed to lead effectively in self-managed organizations and in life. Leading courses globally with Tuff Leadership Training, Lisa trains people in the mindset and skills needed to lead in more involving ways, creating working climates built on trust and openness, as well as helping organizations introduce or develop self-managing teams. As the host of the Leadermorphosis podcast, she interviews thought leaders and practitioners from all over the world about the future of work. Born in the UK, Gill grew up...
2023-08-1344 min
LeadermorphosisTed Rau on parallels between Relationship Anarchy and self-managementWhat can the realm of self-management and new ways of working learn from the realm of polyamory, Relationship Anarchy and open relationships? And how can practices in self-organising work teams help us improve our personal relationships? Ted Rau is the co-founder of Sociocracy for All and author of books like 'Who Decides Who Decides?' and 'Many Voices One Song'. In his personal life, he has been in monogamous relationships and, for the last seven years, in open relationships. We explore the parallels across personal and professional relationships, like what it means to 'be in choice', consent...
2023-05-1058 min
Unthinking Space (formerly Design Feeling)Making work about humans, not just products#032 - How safe do you feel failing, learning and growing in your organisation? In this episode, I had a chat with my good friends Sinem Erdemli and Callum Goodwilliam who’re also the co-founders of Random Animal, a social impact company that’s on a mission to improve work for everyone through better access to learning, design and community.Sinem and Callum emphasise the need to focus on the human aspect of work and creating conditions in organisations where teams and individuals thrive. They also talk about the importance of building safe spaces and communities where people can...
2023-03-161h 05
The Happy ManifestoSelf-managing teams, with Helen Sanderson MBEWholeness, self-management and evolutionary purpose are three core principles that changed Helen Sanderson’s view on teams.Helen Sanderson’s MBE is the founder of Wellbeing Teams, an organisation providing care and support at home. As a self-governing team, they are able to create greater trust and autonomy for employees. But this wasn’t a framework that can just be dropped in:I thought it was like adding a new app on your phone, but it wasn't; it was transforming the operating system.Helen’s three tips for happy workplacesIncrease autonomy and social support...
2023-02-2332 min
LeadermorphosisEp. 84 Jon Alexander on the possibility of opening up a Citizen FutureJon Alexander is the author of the hugely popular 2022 book 'Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us'. He talks to me about the people he interviewed and the stories he collected which show how it's possible to go from what he calls a 'Consumer' mindset to a 'Citizen' mindset – like Taiwan's innovative approach during the COVID pandemic. We also discuss the Three P's of Participatory Organisations, what leadership would need to look like in a Citizen Future, and why we should try to create 'safe uncertainty'. Resources: Jon's website where you ca...
2023-02-2250 min
LeadermorphosisEp. 83 Imandeep Kaur on reimagining social and civic infrastructures for the challenges of the 21st centuryWhat would it look like to reimagine the systems of a whole city? To really involve citizens in addressing the huge challenges we face today? Imandeep Kaur reflects on what she has learned in the last ten years from being part of an ecosystem of social entrepreneurs in Birmingham who are cultivating 'radical reimagination'. From TEDx Brum, to Impact Hub Birmingham, to Dark Matter Labs and finally as the director of CIVIC SQUARE, where she has been greatly influenced by Kate Raworth's work on Doughnut Economics, Immy shares some deep insights and big questions from her journey...
2023-02-091h 09
LeadermorphosisErik Korsvik Østergaard on fragmented organisations and futures literacyErik is an executive advisor on transformation and the future of work, leadership, and collaboration, and the author of 'Teal Dots in an Orange World.' We talk about how this 'new ways of working' movement is evolving, and in particular a positive trend that Erik calls 'fragmented organisations' that's happening because it's hard to scale self-managed or 'teal' practices and principles in a uniform way. Erik shares what he has observed, particularly in larger organisations, including challenges like interfacing with the outside world when you are a progressive organisation. Finally, we explore leadership and 'futures literacy' as an...
2022-11-2350 min
LeadermorphosisMette Aagaard on how a public sector organisation with 8,000 employees is exploring autonomous teamsFor the past year, the Municipality of Slagelse in Denmark has been experimenting with autonomous teams. Of the 8,000 employees, some 25-30 units so far have opted in to learn how to make decisions as a team using key principles of Sociocracy. Mette Aagaard, Head of Development, shares what they have been learning and why she thinks it is the responsibility of the public sector to develop societies, and workplaces, that are fit for humans. Anyone wondering how to introduce self-managing teams in a large public sector organisation, this episode is for you! Resources: The...
2022-09-2058 min
LeadermorphosisLina Maskoliūnė on lessons from a self-managed business experiment in LithuaniaLina shares the story of her time at Finnish commercial real estate company Technopolis where she led the transformation of the Lithuania business unit. Inspired by Frederic Laloux's book Reinventing Organisations, she got the mandate from her boss to run her business unit of 20 people in a totally different way, with no managers. She shares the story of what her team learned, the challenges they faced, and the results they achieved. Highlights include some harsh but valuable feedback from her team about how decisions are made; a group learning to handle their own conflicts; and a chief...
2022-09-071h 04
LeadermorphosisAaron Dignan on using software to help scale new ways of workingAaron Dignan, author of Brave New Work and founder of The Ready, is back on the podcast, this time to talk about how his new software startup, Murmur, can help organisations scale new ways of working. We talk about the importance of team agreements and how to keep them alive, plus what Aaron and his colleagues have been learning from their latest explorations in the worlds of self-management, DAOs and their Brave New Work podcast. Resources: Learn more about Murmur: https://www.murmur.com/ Learn more about The Ready, Aaron's book Brave New Work: https://theready...
2022-08-0258 min
Boundaryless Conversations PodcastS3 Ep. 18 Lisa Gill – Looking Beyond TealLisa Gill is an organizational self-management coach and trainer with Tuff Leadership Training. She was included in the Thinkers50 Radar 2020 for her work with self-managing teams. Lisa is also the host of the Leadermorphosis podcast, where she has interviewed thought leaders and practitioners worldwide about the future of work, and the author of Moose Heads on the Table: Stories About Self-Managing Organisations from Sweden (2020).
Tune in to this episode as we discuss why the way we are working is not working. We reflect on new ways of working, the post-agile era of interrogating the “what,” the power of p...
2022-07-0855 min
Boundaryless Conversations PodcastS3 Ep. 18 Lisa Gill – Looking Beyond TealLisa Gill is an organisational self-management coach and trainer with Tuff Leadership Training. She was included in the Thinkers50 Radar 2020 for her work with self-managing teams. Lisa is also the host of the Leadermorphosis podcast, for which she has interviewed thought leaders and practitioners from all over the world about the future of work, and the author of 'Moose Heads on the Table: Stories About Self-Managing Organisations from Sweden' (2020).
Tune in to this episode as we discuss why the way we are working is not working. We reflect over new ways of working, the post-agile er...
2022-07-0556 min
LeadermorphosisRia Baeck and J.D. Nasaw on trauma informed collaborationRia Baeck and J.D. Nasaw. Ria and J.D. are both coaches and facilitators who combine scientific research of trauma with embodied practices of collective intelligence and wisdom. In our conversation, we discuss questions like: what does trauma have to do with new ways of working? How can we be more conscious collaborators? What are examples of embodied practices we can use so that our journey of new ways of working is not only an intellectual one? Ria has thirty years of experience as a therapist, and J.D. is particularly interested in the i...
2022-06-291h 06
Edge Dwellers CaféEmerging ecologies of non-hierarchical organisations with Sarah HousemanIn this episode of the Edge Dwellers Cafe Podcast, I’m joined in this spirit of Utopia-inspired critical bewilderment by Sarah Houseman to talk about her PhD research into non-hierarchical organisations. We discuss the many functional problems that arise in hierarchical organisations, from power relationships to functional organisational stupidity and leadership cults. We also explore non-hierarchy and decentralisation as alternative organisational structures, along with the challenges faced by organisations transitioning from hierarchical to horizontal structures.
00:00:00 Introduction.
00:03:55 Sarah's professional background in business and not-for-profit sector.
00:06:59 The limits of Education for Sustainability.
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2022-05-221h 39
Make It Thrive: The Company Culture PodcastReimagine the way we workIn this episode I’m joined by Lisa Gill, self-management coach, Tuff Leadership Trainer, author, and host of the Leadermorphosis podcast.
In this session we talk about the ways we can reimagine work, and some of the core skills we can build on a personal level that can shift the way we work.
It was a real honour for Lisa to join me on this podcast, I’ve been listening to her podcast Leadermorphosis for quite some time now, and I had the privilege of being trained by her last year through Tuff, so I know...
2022-05-1643 min
LeadermorphosisMatt Perez on going from a fiat hierarchy to a radical company without bosses or employeesMatt Perez realised that his successful career as a boss in a Silicon Valley tech company had made him a worse person and so he co-founded Nearsoft in 2007 to be a company that works for everyone. His recent book, Radical Companies Without Bosses or Employees, takes self-organisation one step further to include co-ownership so that people aren't dependent on what he calls 'enlightened monarchs.' We talk about what he's been learning, including the development of a distribution mechanism that decentralises ownership and supports egalitarian and equitable wealth sharing based on contribution. Resources: Matt's book 'Radical...
2022-05-0644 min
Non Serviam MediaAll Power To The Imagination #16 - A Random Walk with Jahed MomandA Random Walk with Jahed Momand through crypto, the Dawn of Everything, concepts and possibility.
The first return guest of APttI, Jahed Momand! Freshly jetlagged from ETHDenver, he and Frank have a sprawling conversation that touches on Blockchain, The Dawn of Everything, political possibilities, how terminology traps us and why the future of institutions is probably in Africa.
DISCLAIMER: Jahed uses lots of crypto lingo without defining his terms. For those unfamiliar, please use something like cryptowallet.com/glossary/ as a glossary
The Dawn of Everything, David Graeber and David Wengrow en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dawn_of_Everything
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2022-03-201h 30
Algorütm16.12 Algorütm: RetrospektiividTänases Algorütmis räägime sellest, kuidas peaks vaatama tehtud tööle tagasi ning hindama, kas õiged inimesed tegid õigeid asju õiges tempos, õigel ajal ja viisil. Retrospektiivide teema tõi meile Sergei Anikin, kui oli kuulnud sarnast arutelu Leadermorphosis podcasti selles episoodis: https://open.spotify.com/episode/35aMFo31HboKy1QtonucPE?si=OUssUL8_QDO_2tyMNdgQQw Sergei kutsus saatesse kaasa ka oma kolleeg Toomas Kordemetsa, kellel on retrospektiivide alal palju kogemusi. Algorütmi veavad täna Priit Liivak Nortalist ja Martin Kapp Pipedrive'ist.
2021-12-161h 02
LeadermorphosisJos de Blok on Buurtzorg and the virtues of humanising, not protocolisingJos de Blok is the founder of Buurtzorg, a home care organisation in the Netherlands with 15,000 nurses and no managers. We talk about how their decentralised, human approach has helped them during the pandemic, why he believes 'protocolising things' in organisations does damage, and his advice for leaders and traditional top-down organisations that are embarking on transformation processes. It was an honour to talk to one of my heroes and to hear him speak with such heart. Enjoy! Resources: My interview with the Buurtzorg nurses from the Houten team: https://leadermorphosis.co/ep-26-buurtzorg-and-the-power-of-self-managed-teams-of-nurses More about...
2021-12-0557 min
The Calling (formerly The Agile Contact Centre Podcast)33 | Mooseheads on the Table | Karin Tenelius & Lisa GillKarin Tenelius and Lisa Gill are authors of Mooseheads on the Table, a book about self-managing organisations from Sweden. You can find them here: https://www.tuffleadershiptraining.com/ Karin on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/karin-tenelius-06b2365/ Lisa on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-gill-she-her-23815a4/ Leadermorphosis podcast https://leadermorphosis.co/ Lisa on Twitter https://twitter.com/disruptandlearn?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor About us: This podcast is brought to you by The Agile Contact C...
2021-09-2759 min
LeadermorphosisPasteur Byabeza on transitioning to self-management at Davis CollegePasteur Byabeza is the lead link of the Student Care Circle at Davis College, a higher learning institution in Rwanda. He is one of the pioneers who has been driving the college's transition to becoming a self-managed, Holacratic organisation. Though they are early in their journey, taking steps like disbanding the global council and replacing management hierarchies with distributed decision making have already had a huge impact on people's engagement levels. Pasteur shares what he has learned so far with honesty and contagious passion. Resources: The Davis College website To learn more about Holacracy, you can...
2021-09-2742 min
LeadermorphosisBayo Akomolafe on generative incapacitation and embracing failureBayo Akomolafe is a Nigerian author, professor, chief curator of The Emergence Network and is often known for his poetic and provocative take on big topics such as global crisis and social change. We talk about what he calls 'generative incapacitation' and the kind of leadership that's needed in these times, how the Covid pandemic is disrupting our norms, embracing failure and allowing ourselves to be lost... and I also posed some questions to him about my worries regarding the reinventing work movement. It's a deep conversation so perhaps listen to this out on a walk! Resources:
2021-09-1050 min
The Wicked PodcastLisa Gill: Moose Heads on the TableCan established companies still switch to the highly more effective self-management style of organisations? We talk to Lisa Gill, self-management coach and Tuff leadership trainer and host of the Leadermorphosis podcast.Author page: https://www.tuffleadershiptraining.com/Get the book: https://www.tuffleadershiptraining.com/new-book-moose-heads-on-the-table-stories-about-self-managing-organisations-from-sweden/Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/leadermorphosis/id1234632893Sponsor: Zencastr : http://www.zencastr.comGet 40% off the first 3 months for unlimited audio and HD video recordingsCode: wickedpodcastThe Wicked Podcast:Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thewickedpodcastThe...
2021-08-1740 min
At Work with The ReadyBrave New Work 73. Embracing Discomfort with Lisa GillThere are elephants in the room, and then there are "Moose Heads on the Table." This book, by Lisa Gill and Karen Tenelius, describes the concept as workplace taboos that are simultaneously ingrained and incredibly toxic for getting things done.In this episode of Brave New Work, Aaron Dignan and Rodney Evans talk to Lisa about how to embrace this discomfort at work, and what self-managing organizations can do to empower their employees to speak up when things aren't working.Get Lisa's book, Moose Heads On The Table.
2021-05-2548 min
Activating Consciousness from HEXO ChangeEp 13 - Re-learning the value of curiosity with Lisa GillI absolutely loved this conversation with someone who has been a heroine in my world for a number of years now and indeed it was listening to Lisa's beautiful exploration with Nand Chaudhary that inspired me to connect with him and get him onto Ep 9 of this platform.
Lisa has this incredible grace, energy and clarity around her life's work which is something that always impacts me when I hear he speak. With a focus on self-management and more progressive ways of leading and being withing the workplace, Lisa shares some absolute gems of insight as I w...
2021-05-2541 min
Decide for Impact podcastGoing horizontal and scale your impact – Samantha SladeVandaag het gesprek met Samantha Slade.
Samantha is co-founder of Percolab Coop working in cocreation and organizational innovation for over a decade. The coop functions as a lab in new ways of working, governing and learning while at the same time supporting courageous organisations and partnering on its own bold ventures. Author of Going Horizontal, Creating a Non-hierarchical Organization one practice at a time. Her TedX is The future is in business as commons. Samantha loves to experiment and provoke around conscious economics and regenerative business and believes that organizations can and should be a microcosm of the world we...
2021-05-061h 23
LeadermorphosisYuji Yamada on Reinventing Organisations through a Japanese lensYuji Yamada is the founder of EnFlow and is interested in exploring the differences between approaching organisational transformation from a 'Western lens' and a Japanese lens. We talk about teal organisations from Frederic Laloux's book 'Reinventing Organisations' (which has sold 100,000 copies in Japan) and Yuji's homegrown concept of 'Jinen management'. Could East Asian organisations be at an advantage in developing new ways of working by drawing on their ancient wisdom and inherent cultural paradigms of interconnectedness? How to follow Yuji: Twitter: @yujiyamada0522 Resources: Yuji's Medium post, 'The trends of Teal organization in Japan' The b...
2021-03-0153 min
LeadermorphosisNand Kishore Chaudhary from Jaipur Rugs on love, collective consciousness and self-managementNand Kishore Chaudhary is the remarkable founder of Jaipur Rugs, a company employing 40,000 weavers in 600 villages selling beautiful carpets in 40 countries. The artisans – most of them women in India's "untouchable" class – are the "heroes of the business", and self-managed principles like distributed decision making have long been a hallmark of the company. We talk about how N. K. Chaudhary has created a "business ashram", where people find their clarity of purpose and gain higher consciousness, as well as his thoughts on humble leadership and how Jaipur Rugs will evolve self-management further. Resources: Jaipur Living website and N. K...
2021-02-0247 min
LeadermorphosisAnna Elgh on self-managing teams and shifting conflicts at Svenska RetursystemAnna Elgh is the CEO of Svenska Retursystem, a Swedish circular economy logistics company. We talk about the transformations she has led at the company since joining in 2014, from Lean to nearly three years of moving towards self-managing teams. She shares what she has learned about transforming conflicts, distributed decision making, disbanding the management team, as well as leadership and the power of letting go. Resources: Svenska Retursystem's website The book Lisa has co-authored with Karin Tenelius, Moose Heads on the Table Related Leadermorphosis episodes: Ep. 55 with Frederic Laloux, author of Reinventing Organisations Ep. 37 with Miki...
2020-11-0349 min
LeadermorphosisBill Fischer and Simone Cicero on Haier and the entrepreneurial organisationBill Fischer is a Professor of Innovation Management at IMD and Simone Cicero is the cofounder of Boundaryless and co-creator of the Platform Design Toolkit. We talk about what they have learned from years of studying and collaborating with the Chinese company Haier Group, whose Rendanheyi organisational model has been praised internationally as one of the most revolutionary management ideas of the 21st century. Our conversation explores the extraordinary leadership of CEO Zhang Ruimin, eliminating bureaucracy, designing an organisation to enable thousands of self-managed microenterprises, and what this model means for the future of work. How to...
2020-09-101h 25
The Being Human Podcast with Richard Atherton#127 Moose Heads on the Table - with Lisa Gill> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/
My guest this week is Lisa Gill, host of the ground-breaking podcast Leaderphormosis. She’s also co-author of the just-released 'Moose Heads on the Table: Stories About Self-Managing Organisations from Sweden'.
Lisa has helped businesses across Europe to let go of their boss culture. Her approach, along with fellow liberator Karin Tenelius, is to focus on creating different forms of dialogues between employees within companies, as opposed to looking at complicated the structures and processes.
We talk:
- The benefits of moving to boss-fre...
2020-09-041h 16
LeadermorphosisJorge Silva on horizontal structures and participatory culture at 10PinesJorge Silva is the co-founder of 10Pines, a self-managing software development company in Argentina. We talk about three key practices they have as a horizontal organisation, what they're learning, and Jorge's vision to spread this way of working in South America. How to follow Jorge: Twitter: @jor_silva Resources: A web page about 10Pines' culture Jorge's blog about how 10Pines does recruitment More about Loomio, the tool they use for decisions The Leadermorphosis episode with Anabel Montiel from Nearsoft, a self-managing software company in Mexico
2020-07-0258 min
LeadermorphosisLisa Gill and Mark Eddleston celebrate 50 episodes of LeadermorphosisMark Eddleston, new ways of working consultant and coach and cofounder of the Reinventing Work movement, interviews Lisa Gill as they look back on 50 episodes of the Leadermorphosis podcast. Which conversations have changed their thinking? How has the podcast evolved? What is the next phase of the new ways of working movement? How to follow Mark: Twitter: @marco_eds Resources: Reinventing Work website Mark's website The book Lisa Gill and Karin Tenelius have written, Moose Heads on the Table Leadermorphosis episodes we referred to: Margaret Wheatley Miki Kashtan Helen Sanderson Skeen Rathor Buurtzorg nurses...
2020-06-1647 min
LeadermorphosisDr Tjanara Goreng Goreng and Robyn Katz on sacred leadershipDr Tjanara Goreng Goreng is a Wakka Wakka Wulli Wulli Traditional Owner from Central Queensland, Australia, and Robyn Katz is the founder of Talkpoint, which curates peer-to-peer learning experiences to humanise work. We talk about Tjanara's PhD research which draws parallels between aboriginal culture and eldership, and Robert Kegan's psychological development research and the idea of "sacred leadership". Both women share what they have learned through their own personal transformation journeys, and what's needed now in the world in terms of leadership development. Resources: Talkpoint page featuring videos and other content about Tjanara's sacred leadership doctorate...
2020-06-031h 09
Trust Your Muse#02 Rebels @work: just start & go surfing w/ Florine van Wulfften PaltheSara is a huge fan of the Corporate Rebels. Their mission is to make work more fun. In 2019 they created a second company: Revolt by Corporate Rebels, that works directly with companies to get them into action and support their transformation from within. After getting to know Joost Minnaar, one of the founders of the Corporate Rebels (internally called "The Professor" as he likes to study) - Sara decided to find out more about Revolt and asked them for an interview. She met Florine van Wulfften Palthe in Utrecht. Before joining Revolt by Corporate Rebels in 2019, she was an...
2020-05-2634 min
The Mindtools L&D PodcastCan an organisation really manage itself?Self-management is increasingly seen as the most diplomatic way to run an organisation. But how does this work when critical, time-sensitive decisions have to be made? What structures do these organisations need to have in place to succeed? And how do they overcome the challenges they are presented with? This week, Nicola Boyle and Owen Ferguson are joined by organisational self-management coach Lisa Gill. We discuss: The critical success factors of running a self-managing organisation The challenges of running a self-managing organisation The benefits of shifting to self-management Show notes To find...
2020-05-0541 min
LeadermorphosisLuz and Edwin from Ian Martin Group on adaptability in a crisisLuz Iglesias, Director of Recruitment, and Edwin Jansen, Head of Corporate Development, work at Ian Martin Group, a self-managed, teal recruitment company with 400 employees across Canada and India. They share examples and stories of the initiatives, decisions and creativity that have sprung up in response to the COVID-19 pandemic without any central coordination, and how adaptability and humanity can flow freely in a self-organised system because of the mindset shift it facilitates. As former managers, they reflect on how liberating it is to distribute the responsibility of responding, strategising and taking care of people operations. How to...
2020-04-2950 min
LeadermorphosisSkeena Rathor on Extinction Rebellion, paradoxes and transformationSkeena Rathor, who co-leads the Vision Sensing circle in Extinction Rebellion, shares insights from inside this decentralised movement – how their Holacratic, Sociocratic structures support its collective purpose, the work they're doing with Miki Kashtan to transform power dynamics, and why Skeena's dream is for XR to become a touchstone for the work of co-liberation. We also talk about how XR is responding to COVID-19 and their AloneTogether campaign. How to follow Extinction Rebellion: Twitter: @ExtinctionR Resources: Extinction Rebellion's website and its AloneTogether handbook The Leadermorphosis podcast episode with Miki Kashtan Aimee Groth's article about XR...
2020-04-1754 min
LeadermorphosisBuurtzorg and the power of self-managed teams of nursesBuurtzorg is a remarkable organisation: 15,000 employees working in 850 self-managed teams to deliver home care to patients in the Netherlands. The results, including both patient and employee satisfaction, are so outstanding that Buurtzorg-inspired models are popping up all over the world. I got the chance to talk to three nurses from Team Houten, all of whom came from a traditional, large healthcare company, and hear firsthand what it's like to work in such a high-freedom, high-responsibility environment. Listen to this wonderful conversation with three passionate and charismatic women – Marian, Chila and Jolanda – and discover what they've learned over the last nine...
2018-12-1740 min
LeadermorphosisEdel Harris on transforming social care in ScotlandLearn about the remarkable transformation journey CEO Edel Harris has been leading with one of Scotland's largest charities, Cornerstone. It began by taking three months out of the business to visit inspiring companies around the world like Southwest Airlines and Buurtzorg. Two years in, Cornerstone has lost nine layers of management in favour of nurturing self-managing local care and support teams. Austerity has made it painfully tough for the social care sector, but here's a story of how one organisation has reinvented itself and found innovative ways to deliver person-centred care. How to follow Edel: Twitter...
2018-11-2845 min
LeadermorphosisZoe Nicholson from Here on reconnecting to an organisation's purposeZoe Nicholson shares the role of Chief Executive at healthcare social enterprise Here in the UK and describes her job as tethering the organisation to its purpose. She shares some of the practices they've developed at Here, inspired by sources like Frederic Laloux's "Reinventing Organisations" and mindfulness, as well as some of the challenges of working in a highly regulated and hierarchical sector. How to follow Zoe: Twitter: @zoenicholson4 More resources: Here's website http://hereweare.org.uk/ The Circle Way practice http://www.thecircleway.net/ Margaret Wheatley's talk about islands of sanity Leadermorphosis podcast...
2018-07-1246 min