6 Mantras for Managing Self-Organizing Teams

In Part 1 of this blog post, I put a new spin on an old set of “commandments” that I learned early in my career.  Drawn from a book given to me by a key mentor, those commandments encouraged me to challenge the very hierarchical environment in which I worked. Our organization structure looked like […]

The Reality of Organizing a Self-Organizing Team

As I was thinking about writing on the topic of self-organizing teams, I ran a Google search to see what popped up.  All the top-level results were references from agile sites like scrum.org.  That would lead one to believe that the concept of self-organizing teams is new, something that was somehow invented along with agile […]