Resources to encourage the emergence and existence of Responsive Organizations

[Last updated: 10/08/2020]

Topics such as agility, self-organization, self-management, teal organizations, decentralized organizations, and adaptability are some of the terms that orbit the theme of responsive organizations.

Below I have tried to list some possible references by item type.

Topics:

• Social Technologies to apply in organizations
• 📚 Books
• 🎧 Podcasts
• 🛠️ Facilitation Tools & Game
• Check-In & Icebreakers Questions
• 🏛️ Organizations and handbooks for inspiration
• 🌐 Websites
• 📝 Posts
• 🖥️ Online tools: for decision making, managing the design and networking of organizational structure, and other topics

Social Technologies to apply in organizations

• Organic Organization (O2)
• Sociocracy (Sociocracy For All)
• Sociocracy 3.0
• Holacracy

📚 Books

• Freedom, Inc.: How Corporate Liberation Unleashes Employee Potential and Business Performance
• Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations by Frederic Laloux
• Corporate Rebels: Make Work More Fun
• The No-Limits Enterprise: Organizational Self-Management In The New World Of Work
• Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader’s Guide to the Real World
• Brave New Work: Are You Ready to Reinvent Your Organization?
• Company-wide Agility with Beyond Budgeting, Open Space & Sociocracy
• Many Voices One Song: Shared Power With Sociocracy
• The Age of Thrivability: Vital Perspectives and Practices for a Better World
• Why Employees Are Always a Bad Idea — A radical new book about the Participation Age, for everyone who: has a job, owns a company, or manages people.
• The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups
• Going Horizontal: Creating a Non-Hierarchical Organization, One Practice at a Time
• Inviting Leadership: Invitation-Based Change™ in the New World of Work
• One Mission: How Leaders Build A Team Of Teams
• Implementing Beyond Budgeting: Unlocking the Performance Potential
• Formula X: How to Reach Extreme Acceleration in Your Organization
• Liberated Companies: How To Create Vibrant Organizations In The Digital Age
• Better work together: How the power of community can transform your business
• Sociocracy 3.0 — A Practical Guide For Evolving Agile and Resilient Organizations
• Holacracy: The New Management System for a Rapidly Changing World by Brian J. Robertson

Other books:

• Thinking in Systems: A Primer
• Cascades: How to Create a Movement That Drives Transformational Change
• The Surprising Power of Liberating Structures: Simple Rules to Unleash A Culture of Innovation
• Motivational Interviewing for Leadership: MI-LEAD
• Facilitator’s Guide to Participatory Decision-Making
• Holonomics: Business Where People and Planet Matter by Simon Robinson
• Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships (Nonviolent Communication Guides)
• Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
• Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most
• The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever
• Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
• A Model for Intentional Change in Organizations by Bernhard Bockelbrink
• Do-ocracy Handbook
• S3 for one

🎧 Podcasts

• Leadermorphosis — Leadermorphosis is a podcast exploring the emerging world of self-management and progressive organisations. Hosted by Lisa Gill, each episode features a guest thought leader or practitioner offering a unique perspective on new and innovative ways of working.
• Trust Your Mose— The Podcast Exploring New Ways Of Working.

️🛠 Facilitation Tools & Game

• Going Horizontal Game: The card game that invites us to explore horizontal leadership through real life stories
• NOBL Academy is our library of tools, case studies, essays, and trainings designed to help you make your culture a competitive advantage
• Facilitation Toolbox Board
• Collaboration Superpowers — Tools for remote teams
• A TOOLKIT FOR VIRTUAL COMMUNITY BUILDERS
• Resources for decentralised organising: a mega list of handbooks and toolkits for groups working without top-down management from social movements to workplaces open source for anyone to read, update, share
• Liberating Structures: Simple, Subtle, Powerful: This website offers an alternative way to approach and design how people work together. It provides a menu of thirty-three Liberating Structures to replace or complement conventional practices.
• Prototyping Work — Discover great practices for your future of work.
• https://toolkit.mozilla.org/ — The Open Innovation Toolkit is a community sourced set of best practices and principles to help you incorporate human-centered design into your product development process. Whether you have a new idea or a working prototype to test, the Open Innovation Toolkit can help.
• http://diytoolkit.org/ — Practical tools to trigger and support social innovation.
• http://servicedesigntools.org/repository — Service Design Tools: Communication Methods Supporting Design Processes.
• Board Of Innovation — Strategy & Business Design Firm
• MindTools — Essential Skills for an excellent career
• https://toolbox.hyperisland.com/ — A resource kit you can use to apply creative collaboration and unleash the potential in your team or organization.
• ParticipateDB — ParticipateDB is a collaborative catalogue that tracks the tools and services that make up this exciting and fast emerging space.
• This is Service Design doing METHOD LIBRARY — “In this library, you’ll find 54 hands-on descriptions that help you DO the key methods used in service design. These methods include instructions, guidelines, and-tips-and tricks for activities within research, ideation, prototyping, and facilitation.This collection only contains building blocks. It doesn’t detail how to assemble them into a cohesive design process or how to plan or manage it.”
• H3Uni Resource Library — Whatever your interest in transformation and your particular field of operation, this Resource Library is relevant to increasing your effectiveness and that of those with whom you work.
• Hosting Transformation — We believe that everyone has the right to shape the world with joy and ease. We put our love and care into this collection of facilitation methods to support you.
• Activities for Creating Sacred Space and Ritual

Check-In, Icebreakers Questions & Games

• 120+ TEAM BUILDING ICEBREAKER QUESTIONS FOR WORK
• The 25 best icebreaker questions for team-building at work
• Icebraker.range.co — Start your meetings and gatherings with over 300 questions designed to build trust, connectedness, and psychological safety.
• Get your shot of inspiration for your check-in question
• Have fun, build trust, boost teamwork

🏛 Organizations and handbooks for inspiration

• List of organizations by country (+100)
• List of organizations by industry (+100)
• Buurtzorg
• Enspiral
• Morning Star
• The Loomio Cooperative Handbook
• Crisp DNA
• Gini handbook
• Gitlab Company Handbook
• Thoughtbot Playbook
• Valve Company Handbook
• Conscious by Bolt
• Ouishare Handbook
• Hanno Playbooks

🌐 Websites

• Corporate Rebels
• Semco Style Blog
• 6ft Organization — It’s time to organize differently
• Target Teal — Organizational Design for the VUCA era
• Org Hacking
• REINVENTING ORGANIZATIONS & Reinventing Organizations Wiki
• Re:work (Google) — Let’s make work better
• Gallup — We help leaders and organizations solve their most pressing problems
• Jan Höglund’s Blog — Thoughts on work and life
• Manuel Küblböck
• Samantha Slade
• Ted J Rau
• Richard D. Bartlett
• Teal For Startups
• Consent-Based Governance: Principles and Policy
• Beyond Budgeting — Enabling business agility
• BetaCodex — Bringing the Necessary Organizational Renaissance to life
• Sociocracy For All
• Sociocracy.info
• Sociocracia.org.br
• Sociocracy30.org
• Thrive-in Collaboration
• S3 for one
• The Courageous Follower: “Courageous Followership recognizes that to be effective at almost every level of an organization, individuals need to play both the leader and follower role adeptly”.

📝 Posts

• 11 Practical Steps Towards Healthy Power Dynamis At Work
• The Beyond Budgeting principles
• Patterns for Decentralised Organising
• THE 8 HABITS OF COMPANIES YOU WISH YOU WORKED FOR (AND HOW TO PUT THEM INTO PRACTICE)
• Overview of organizing orders
• 7 domains of practice
• So, how does an organisation shift to self-management?
• Supporting networks with sociocracy: Combining the strength of sociocracy and the beauty of networks
• Secrets of very fast organizational transformation
• How we lead in a self-organized company
• How we hold each other to account in a self-organized company
• Why we treat employees like adults and the trade-offs this entails
• How we are structured in autonomous teams as a network of interrelated autonomous teams
• How we enable switching roles and positions to support individual growth while ensuring continuity of work
• How is this different than the Spotify model?
• How we foster individual growth with autonomy, feedback, and guidance
• Games leaders play: hide and rescue — a self-organization transformation anti-pattern
• How we steer organizational development within a self-organized organization
• How we make decentralized decisions in a self-organized company
• There is no hierarchy in sociocracy… right?
• Cut the bullshit: organizations with no hierarchy don’t exist
• Hierarchy Is Not the Problem. It’s the Power Dynamics.
• The 3 most typical struggles in sociocratic organizations and how to fix them
• 3 tools from sociocracy to use right away (plus magic phrases!)
• How decision-making affects our behavior
• Saying yes! to working and no! to stumbling blocks
• Consent vs. Consensus — What’s the Difference?
• Generative Decision Making Process
• A very brief introduction to sociocracy
• Hierarchy Equals Structure
• THE TYRANNY of STRUCTURELESSNESS
• Minimum Viable Structure: Organisational Scaffolding to Get Out of Emergency Mode: For activists, startups, and NGOs: 8 lightweight interventions to get a working team to shift from sprint to marathon.
• A Beginner’s Guide to Org Design: The 8 Words We Encounter The Most: “Agile Squads, Complex Adaptive Systems, Future Of Work, Holacracy, Self-Organization (Self-Org), Teal Organization, Team of Teams, Wholeness”
• The Last Re-Org You’ll Ever Do: “New (and old) thinking about organization design may lead to ever-evolving entities”
• About Open Allocation: “Open allocation means people choose what they work on.”
• A Beginner’s Guide to Org Design: The 8 Words We Encounter The Most: “Agile Squads, Complex Adaptive Systems, Future Of Work, Holacracy, Self-Organization (Self-Org), Teal Organization, Team of Teams, Wholeness”
• The Last Re-Org You’ll Ever Do: “New (and old) thinking about organization design may lead to ever-evolving entities”
• The Holy Grail of Self-management: Stop overthinking. Start doing. Improve from there
• Meetings for human beings who want to get work done
• On rounds: The signature tool of sociocracy are rounds
• Connect Agile Teams to Organizational Hierarchy: A Sociocratic Solution

🖥️ ️Online tools

Decision making

• Loomio — Collaborate and make better decisions with Loomio.
• Threads — Threads is a platform designed to make work more inclusive by empowering teams to discuss and make decisions at scale.
• Pol.is — Input Crowd, Output Meaning. Polis is a real-time system for gathering, analyzing and understanding what large groups of people think in their own words, enabled by advanced statistics and machine learning.
• LiquidFeedback — Decisions made easy.
• Yabuu — Make better decisions. Better preparation leads to better discussions and this results in decisions that enjoy better support.
• The Decider — Decide better together. Answer a few simple questions to explore better ways to make group decisions.
• Kialo — A debate platform powered by reason. Kialo cuts through the noise typically associated with social and online media, making it easy to engage in focused discussion.
• Consider.it — Consider.it can help you collect feedback, engage stakeholders, make group decisions, teach critical thinking, and more.
• WheelDecide — CAN’T DECIDE? WHEEL DECIDE FOR YOU!
• COLLECTIVEONE — CollectiveOne is a method (and a platform) to develop open, decentralized and collaborative initiatives: initiatives to which anyone can, potentially, contribute, and which are collectively owned and self-governed by their contributors.
• ElectionBuddy — The Easiest Way to Election Excellence.
• Decidim — Free Open-Source participatory democracy for cities and organizations

Managing the design of the organizational structure

• Slashme.com — A Platform for Purposeful Self-management
• Sutra.co
• HumanReef — Unlock the full potential of your business
• Honeycomb
• Glassfrog — It makes Holacracy transparent and accessible, end-to-end
• Holaspirit — Web app designed for Holacracy
• Kumu.io — Kumu is a powerful data visualization platform that helps you organize complex information into interactive relationship maps.
• Peerdom Map — Peerdom Map is simple: it allows you to create, visualise, and dynamically interact with your organisational structure.
• OrgBook — OrgBook permet de réunir toute l’information de votre organisation dans un seul lieu vivant et dynamique.
• Maptio — Mapping for self-managed organisations. Visualise who’s responsible for what; who’s helping who; and how the overall vision breaks down into the smaller ideas contributing to it.

Other topics

• Tools for remote teams
• Virtual Team Quick Guide
• Cobudget — Plataforma para decidir onde aplicar fundos de forma colaborativa
• Cognoscenti — Major Adaptive CaseManagement, Coordination, Communication, Collaboration System
• Holodex
• Open App
• BetterMeans
• Resource Planning and Value Accounting for Value Networks
• Open Co-ops: Inspirations, Legal Structure and Tools
• Sociocracy 3.0 or S3 with Trello