Flox: The Future of Teams
Over the last six months, we have been furiously working on our own answer to models like Holacracy which represent an early but flawed attempt at a one-sized-fits-all solution to organizational problems. The creators of Holacracy tout it as a panacea, yet more and more companies which adopt it suffer wildly for it. For our efforts, we’ve been analyzing our past projects (both at NOBL and Undercurrent), assessing teams (both our own clients and others), and reviewing years of research into team design and organizational complexity.
We believe that instead of dogmatic constitutions or draconian processes, teams should instead be free to exercise their own agency, creativity, and capability with only four simple, shared, and local rules:
- Steer toward the unmet and emerging needs of your customers
- Steer toward reducing misalignment
- Steer toward autonomy
- Steer toward reducing and resisting complexity
We call this more flexible model Flox and I just arrived back in LA from Sweden after debuting it for the first time to a conference in Malmö. Soon, we’ll be introducing an assessment tool for your own team and a resource of practices to maximize all four.
For now, learn more about our new team theory-of-everything by watching my talk.
I know it’s a bit of a tease, but we’d love your feedback and questions.
via email
I like the litany of ‘rocket ships’ that have crashed — Virtual and Quirky.
from Stowe Boyd http://stoweboyd.com/2015/11/14/bud-caddel-on-flox/
