Best Reads 2019 / Ouishare

With our newsletters we share articles, videos, tools, and events to help you explore the exciting territory of networks and collaboration. From dynamic leadership and the future of work to circular design, platforms and ecosystems, the blockchain and collective intelligence.

Articles

• Ecosystem Building: A Corporate Game Plan for Collaboration.
• The Threat and Opportunity of Lifelong Learning.
• The seven fundamental changes that organisations are going through.
• Medium’s experiment with Holacracy failed. Long live the experiment!
• The digital labour market under debate.
• A New Growth Theory.
• An alternative way to look at conflict in teams.
• An open-source angle to the fight between Veja and Primark.
• How Ouishare is helping DeLuz in their teal-evolutionary ransformation.
• 11 Practical Steps Towards Healthy Power Dynamics at Work.
• Steward-ownership is Capitalism 2.0.
• The “Tension & Practice” cards is an exercise you can do yourself with your team.
• Mighty Networks is a tool for growing communities.
• How can we make learning part of the powerful current of the daily workflow?
• How to scale up learning?
• Communities VS Networks.
• How we make decentralised decisions.
• Our friends at Enspiral have published a GREAT book: Better Work Together.
• A trickle becomes a river, reflections about a nascent movement.
• Why being smart is not enough — the social skills and structures of tackling complexity.
• The end of scale.
• The end of bureaucracy.
• Learnings from Community Building: Despierta.
• Generative Decision Making Process. Collective decision making made efficient.
• Answering the Knowledge Management Challenge. How can we manage our collective knowledge so we can be more effective at what we do?

Worth Testing

• If you still haven’t found a good replacement for 80% of your email communications, maybe you can try superhuman.
• Eurovelo, the European cycle route network.
• Try the Ball Point game when you want to illustrate the importance of agile with a new team.
• Arc of Collaboration, a self-assessment online tool to gauge the culture of collaboration in your organisation.
• Discourse an open-source alternative to Slack.
• If you are using a variety of cloud applications and would like to create some powerful automations, check out Zapier and Airtable.
• For the facilitators who read this newsletter, in Liberating Structures you will find loads of very useful exercises and formats.
• Assessment: Do You Know How Bureaucratic Your Organization Is?

Worth Watching (or listening to)

• These are the videos of the RadicalxChange conference.
• Teaming, 13min TED Talk by Amy Edmondson
• What high performance teams do.
• Margaret Wheatley on leadership and Warriors for the Human Spirit.
• The Feedback Wrap.
• Bellingcat interview — about open-source investigative journalism.
• Jos de Blok on Organizational Structures.
• Management is no longer a valid technology to organise work.
• Haier: From failing fridge manufacturer to global electronic giant.
• The Real Future of the Platform Economy.
• Gary Hamel on how to approach change in organisations.

Tech corner

• If you are into Human Machine Interface, you should not miss Reply.
• The world’s most valuable AI companies and what they are working on.
• Aran Balkan on an Internet of People.
• The era of Move Fast and Break Things is over.
• A real-life application of Blockchain technology, this one on mobility.
• Why 2019 will be the year of the DAO.
• After the Crash — understanding blockchain a bit better.

Others, randomly

• Bad meetings no more.
• Bootstrapping a Working Agreement for the Agile Team.
• Dismissals in a Teal organisation.
• The Future of Leadership Development.
• Governance networks in the public sector.
• Curated list of articles and resources on setting our own salaries.
• How to solve the plastic packaging paradox.
• Understanding New Power.
• The privacy project.
• Make better decisions with quadratic voting.
• What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team.
• A thought from Seth Godin on the importance of purpose.
• How does an organisation shift to self-management?
• People I trust swear this one is a very good masters programme.
• vTaiwan — citizen engagement in legislative action.
• These are the operating principles of Bethnal Green Ventures.
• What happens when techno-utopians actually run a country?
• Interesting entreprise hub in Lambeth.

About me

I’m an organisational transformation facilitator who works with organisations seeking to empower their teams to innovate and transform business strategy. My focus is on collaborative and agile practices, knowledge management and collective intelligence. I’m fascinated by networked organisations, distributed leadership and innovative governance models, and their ability to transform traditional companies into adaptive and purposeful organisations.

You can contact me at manel@greaterthan.works or simply check out our work at Greaterthan.