Hero behaviour, and how it's hurting your organisation
Why quietly solving everyone's problems harms your team, and what to do instead. Sometimes it's better to let the fire burn.
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Food for thought
What I've written about better ways of working, the books on my shelf, and conversations worth your time.
Articles
Ways of working & leadership
Onboarding new employees: a 5-step process
A practical onboarding process that helps new hires find their feet faster, and start as autonomous team members from day one.
Read the article →Why don't you just do it?
The moment trust and autonomy changed how I see work.
Coming soonThe accident that started my company
Burnout, recovery, and learning to build environments where people thrive.
Coming soonReading material
Bookshelf
The ones that shaped how I think about work, structure and people.
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Getting Things Done
David Allen
The system behind everything I teach about personal work. Get it out of your head into a system you trust.
How to be a Productivity Ninja
Graham Allcott
A friendlier, more human take on GTD. Calm and ruthless, not crazy-busy.
Measure What Matters
John Doerr
The OKR classic. Where most teams first meet objectives and key results.
Radical Focus
Christina Wodtke
OKRs told as a story. The most practical guide to actually running them.
Holacracy
Brian J. Robertson
The source for role-based structure and distributed authority. I borrow the good parts, minus the jargon.
Reinventing Organizations
Frederic Laloux
The book that reframed what an organisation can be. Essential for anyone curious about self-management.
Powerful
Patty McCord
Netflix's take on building a culture of freedom and responsibility.
Bringing Out the Best in People
Aubrey C. Daniels
Positive reinforcement, done well. How behaviour really changes at work.
Watch & listen
From the archives
Older conversations and interviews, still worth a listen.
The NextGen Enterprise Podcast
A series on building the next-generation enterprise: self-organisation, OKRs and better ways of working. Six episodes, embedded below.
Interviews
Holacracy-style hiring at Springest
An interview for holacracy.org on how we hired and onboarded people in a fully self-organising company: trial days, role-based decisions and learning the way of working from day one.
Read the interview →Self-organisation, Holacracy and Sociocratie 3.0
A Dutch-language interview with Rebelwise on bringing self-organisation to teams: a modular approach over one-size-fits-all, working from tensions, and consent-based decision-making in everyday practice.
Read the interview →Speaking
NextGen Enterprise Summit
Invited as a speaker at the NextGen Enterprise Summit, where I hosted a session on “fueling intrinsic motivation”, sharing best practices and lessons learned on self-organisation and collaboration, drawn from work with Springest, Bol.com and Mentaal Beter.
Check out the NextGen Enterprise →