Holacracy: Who's the Boss in the Workplace

Holacracy distributes authority and decision-making throughout an organization and defines people not by hierarchy and titles but by roles. Holacracy creates organizations that are fast and agile and that succeed by pursuing their purpose, free from the tyranny of top-down planning that's instantly out of date. This isn't anarchy - it's quite the opposite.

As companies evolve to adopt, integrate, and leverage software as the defining element of their success in the 21st century, a rash of processes and methodologies are vying for their product teams' attention. In the worst of cases, each discipline on these teams - product management, design, and software engineering - learn a different model.

David Marquet, an experienced Navy officer, was used to giving orders. Marquet acted like any other captain until, one day, he unknowingly gave an impossible order, and his crew tried to follow it anyway. Marquet realized he was leading in a culture of followers, and they were all in danger unless they fundamentally changed the way they did things. Struggling against his own instincts to take control, he instead achieved the vastly more powerful model of giving control.

Wo kommen eigentlich die wirklich guten Ideen her? Erfolgreiche Innovationen sind kein Hexenwerk, sie sind von Menschen gemacht. Und sie sind planbar. Wie das geht, erfahren Sie in diesem Hörbuch, das die Grundelemente des Design Thinking vorstellt und beschreibt, wie man ein Design-Thinking-Projekt plant.

Als Team-Entwickler unterstützt ein guter Vorgesetzter seine Mitarbeiter nicht nur fachlich, sondern er ist auch aufmerksamer Beziehungsmanager: Er vermittelt ihnen Orientierung und Vertrauen und ermutigt sie, Herausforderungen entschlossen anzunehmen. Zusammen mit seinem Coaching-Partner Stefan Gröner hat der Business-Coach Jens Corssen auf Basis der Philosophie des Selbst-Entwicklers spezielle Teamrollen entwickelt, die diesen innovativen Führungsstil anschaulich machen.