I have to admit, I was running on fumes. It was January, and I was stretched so thin that I could barely function. My friends, family, and coworkers were telling me that I wasn’t showing up for them, and it was painfully clear that something had to change. The truth…

Today, I’m excited to announce a new partnership for The Ready. As you’ve probably noticed, we’ve been diving deep into the world of Web3 to better understand what role innovations like the blockchain, tokens, NFTs, and DAOs might play in the future of work. And while it’s early days, it’s…

A self-managing consultancy and future-of-work laboratory — In this article, I’ll show you how we work inside The Ready — an organization transformation consultancy. We’re a fully self-managing company; there are no bosses or managers, our team members set their own salaries, and we make decisions collectively. …

As reported in TechCrunch today, for the past six months my team and I have been quietly working on something new. It’s a software startup called Murmur, and it’s going to change the world of work. The Problem Let’s face it, work sucks. You’ve seen it firsthand. Tensions between teams. Meetings to…

A bench full of star players does not automatically produce a winning team. Use these exercises to build a sense of membership on your team. — Once a year, about a hundred miles outside of Reno, the Burning Man festival descends upon the desert for a weeklong social experiment in community, art, transcendence, and bacchanalia. Seventy thousand people supported by two thousand volunteers appear out of nowhere and stand up a self-contained society founded on ten…

A new and improved tool for reinventing your organization — Need this in German? Lesen Sie diesen Artikel auf Deutsch! Need this in French? Lisez cet article en Français! Organization design is hard. Whether you’re the CEO of a global corporation, the founder of a startup, or a team leader inside one of the tens of thousands of companies that…

I recently announced that I’m writing a book on how and why to adopt self-organization (and the imminent death of bureaucracy and management). It’s straight talk about the struggle to create an organization (company, foundation, school, church, etc.) that runs itself. It will celebrate adaptivity, meaning, and abundance. …

How to rebuild your organization from the ground up — UPDATE: A newer version of this article (and tool) exists. Click here to read it. Organization design is hard. Whether you’re the CEO of a global corporation, the founder of a startup, or a team leader inside one of the tens of thousands of companies that make our world turn, you’re up against one of the greatest puzzles ever conceived. We see evidence of this…

The debt that’s crippling your company isn’t on your balance sheet. Here’s what to do about it. — Debt has been around for thousands of years. You borrow money. The lender charges interest until you pay the money back. It’s simple. More recently, the software development community coined a term for another kind of debt: technical debt. …