Coaching is more than a conversation—it’s an operating model.
This piece explores how coaching leadership can wire reflection, adaptability, and resilience into your team’s nervous system.
Featuring case studies (Microsoft, IDEO) and systems-thinking insights.
🧭 https://open.substack.com/pub/carlosraulmuozjr/p/coaching-leadership-development-as
"A lot of things don't change until things structurally change. If your team can't deploy at will, that's a constraint. If you're supposed to be data-informed, but have to jump through hoops to instrument a metric—and then another set of hoops to even see the dashboard—that's a constraint. If accessing customers requires five people's permission, it probably won't happen. If engineers are incentivized for individual accomplishments instead of shared outcomes, you'll end up with too much work in progress and not enough finished value. "
John Cutler on Marty Cagan and SVPG.
But that is the whole point: How helpful are very generalistic advices with an added extra "Google did that" sauce on it? Exactly, not much.
Stefan Kühl schreibt über die #Digitalisierung in der Verwaltung - beschreibt aber ziemlich genau, woran Veränderungen in den meisten Organisationen scheitern:
• Unklare Definitionen und Zusammenrühren verschiedener Aspekte
• Unklare Zuständigkeiten und keine Chance relevant zu wirken
• Desinteresse und Sorge vor Misserfolg in der Führungsebene
Lesenswert:
https://sozialtheoristen.de/2025/03/18/digitalisierung-als-politischer-staubsaugerbegriff/
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http://sociocracyforall.org/primer-sutra
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🤔 Ever noticed how we try to solve complex organizational problems with simple solutions?
Just published a deep dive into why we need multiple perspectives for effective organizational change, and how to actually implement them.
Real examples, practical approaches, no buzzwords.
Read more: https://ostoewer.substack.com/p/different-perspectives-on-organizations?r=4bjbal
#OrgDev #Leadership #SystemicThinking
I read a lot about "anti-pattern" in teams and organizations. What is that supposed to be?
I can observe patterns in teams and orgs. Some are helpful, some are not so helpful in that given context. The same pattern, that fails in one context, works well in another. All patterns served a purpose at a time, which might not be given anymore and makes them obsolete.
Talking about "anti-pattern" is normative BS and belongs to cults, not to social science. #justsaying
🧠 Evolve Your Org's Thinking Patterns
Just published: Why structural changes often fail & how evolved thinking creates lasting transformation.
Explore how collective intelligence emerges when we shift our mental models.
Read more: https://ostoewer.substack.com/p/the-evolution-of-thinking
#SystemicThinking #OrgDev #Innovation
Thoughts? 🤔
↺ Boost if this resonates!
🌀 Just published: Why fighting organizational complexity is like trying to catch water with a net.
Want to know why your detailed plans might backfire & how successful orgs actually thrive in complexity? I share insights from years of transformation work.
Read here👇
https://ostoewer.substack.com/p/embracing-complexity-why-your-organizations
Thoughts? Let's discuss! Open to connect with fellow complexity thinkers.
Neue Ausgabe der Neuen Narrativen. Thema diesmal "Meetings".
Schöne Zeitschrift für alle, die in/mit Organisationen und Teams arbeiten. Vollgepackt mit Tools, Reflektionen und Meinungen.
Whitepaper on #dev productivity vs problem solving culture:
(full text is linked in the article)
"[..] we have argued that it is time to move past debates about increasing individual developer productivity (which is frequently narrowly operationalized as developer output), and shift focus to creating a broader science of
collective developer problem-solving."
Always good invest of time to listen to James Coplien:
„Everybody counts or nobody counts“ says Harry Bosch.
This is one of the reasons why pilots, labs, experiments and other forms of dabbling in organizational development suck.
#orgdev #leadership #betacodex
A must-watch episode of #BetaCodexLIVE, with special guest Paul Tolchinsky, revisiting the roots of Organizational Development
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cORGx-EOzKM
European Organisation Design Forum #orgdesign #betacodex #orgdev
Niels Pflaeging just added Richard Farson's wonderful book "Management of the Absurd" to the BetaCodex Network "Books 2 Read" list on the #BetaCodex website! Check out the full list of almost 90 books here: https://betacodex.org/further-content/books-to-read/ #leadership #orgdev #collaboration #agile #lean
This is likely going to be an eye-opener for many of you, Rijon and I discussed "From Trist to Today" with my wonderful friend Paul Tolchinsky – co-creator of #WholeScaleChange, #EODF founder and author of 2 books & many articles in the field of #OrgDev. In our conversation, we traced the history of OD in practice, from its beginnings to today, and into the future. This 67-min. video should be worth your while!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cORGx-EOzKM #betacodex #orgdev #orgdesign #leadership
Watch the conversation "From Trist to Today" now on YouTube!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cORGx-EOzKM
#BetaCodexLIVE #betacodex #trist #stc #tavistock #orgdev #orgdesign #eodf
Join us on Wednesday for a new edition of #BetaCodexLIVE, with special guest Paul Tolchinsky: https://youtube.com/watch?v=cORGx-EOzKM
You cannot fully understand organizational dynamics if you do not understand #OrgPhysics: Which means to embrace the fact that every organization has three kinds of structure, three kinds of power and three #leaderships.
https://betacodex.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/BetaCodex-OrgPhysicsExplained-2022.pdf
In this brand new video podcast, Jose Leal, Guillermo Espinola Orci and I discuss "Decentralized, Democratic and High Performing Organization": Why this requires overcoming command-and-control, what it entails, and how to get there. https://youtube.com/watch?v=3cAmOoVbFqs
#betacodex #leadership #collaboration #transformation #orgdesign #orgdev #agile #lean
#Optimization comes from seeking practical answers.
#Transformation comes from pursuing profound questions,
rather than seeking practical answers.
