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Public speaking, private corporate sessions, workshops, multi-day-offsites – if it's about helping teams work better (and produce better work), I'm there.

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Permission to Move

The organizations that win with AI won't be the ones with the best models or the biggest budgets, although those things will help. They'll be the ones where permission isn't something you ask for. The ones where permission is baked into how the system already works.

Apr 6, 2026 12 min read
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The Founding Flaw of Matrix Organizing

Last year I was on a podcast with my friends at Zappi, and we got to talking about matrix orgs – there's an old bug inside the system, and it'll never go away.

Jan 11, 2023 4 min read
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Creating The Conditions

A corporate retreat day organized around three stories, three games, and three new practices.

Apr 12, 2017 7 min read
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On Organizational Learning for YCN

Last year while in London helping Joe set up August's London office – and to help celebrate Joe's wedding, hence the gravelly tone and greasy appearance – I stopped by YCN to do a quick interview about how we help organizations learn. 0:00 /3:00 1× Transcript

Feb 28, 2017 2 min read
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The New Model for Scaling a Company

Three old technologies (rule of law, market forces, and transparency) can help us move toward seven universal performance criteria for organizations: purpose; fitness; vitality; fairness; power; connection; safety.

Oct 8, 2015 10 min read
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Designing for Autonomy

Purposeful autonomy has been, and always will be, the main goal of organizing.

Apr 30, 2014 4 min read
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Smaller is Better: Web 2.0 2010

Alex and I were fortunate enough to be able to present something at Web 2.0 on Thursday of last week, and I’m happy to report that it went off without a hitch. We spoke about a topic that we’ve both been passionate about for quite some time:

Oct 2, 2010 6 min read