Self-Organization Archives - Marcus Raitner

The Logic of Agility

Marcus Raitner — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 07:28:25 +0000

When people talk about agility, some rave about customer orientation and speed, while others invoke the self-organization and autonomy of the team. Mostly these and some other concepts float more or less incoherently in a mystical cloud around the central concept of agility. An attempt to put these ideas into a logical context.

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Personal Responsibility Instead of Obedience

Marcus Raitner — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 05:15:00 +0000

Lonely Christmas? How does the Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder actually talk to us? I'm sick of being admonished like a child, threatened and occasionally praised. With this ongoing infantilization of mature citizens, the government is undermining the self-organization and personal responsibility that we urgently need for a sustainable containment of the pandemic.

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Leadership at a Distance—Gardener Beats Chess Master

Marcus Raitner — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 04:15:00 +0000

The crisis is accelerating digitalization. Distributed collaboration from home rather than together in an open-plan office is suddenly the standard. But how does leadership at a distance succeed? Some incitements to reconsider from the Manifesto for Human(e) Leadership.

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Less Rules – Better Cooperation

Marcus Raitner — Fri, 10 Jan 2020 05:15:00 +0000

How many rules does cooperation require? Less is more. For instance in traffic, as Hans Monderman's concept of shared space shows. But also in organizations: fewer rules lead to more responsibility and lively cooperation.

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Discipline Beyond Obedience

Marcus Raitner — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 04:14:47 +0000

Children are awesome. And sometimes they are an awesome challenge. To be honest, our two daughters are this every single day – more than once. Young children in…

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People over Processes

Marcus Raitner — Fri, 13 Jul 2018 19:55:20 +0000

Making decisions is often considered an essential element of leadership. An elite circle of executives makes decisions; at least the big and strategic ones and sometimes, depending on…

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The Dead End of the Agile Transformation

Marcus Raitner — Fri, 08 Jun 2018 19:22:43 +0000

Copying Spotify or simply implementing any other blueprint of an agile organization is a fundamental mistake. Not because the models themselves were poor, but because implementing a model…

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