In this podcast Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Doug Kirkpatrick, organisational change expert, author and advocate for new ways of working.

Why listen to this podcast:

• Decentralization is replacing hierarchy and bureaucracy. Organisations need to be directly connected to the outside world and agilely adapt to changes in their ecosystems

• The idea of people managing other people will fade and be replaced by people connecting to a mission and meaning, and managing themselves in the same way they manage themselves in their lives

• Mandating a change is command and control in a different guise – people need to be part of the change and opt in to be part of the changed organisation

• Two simple, yet profound, principles:

o No use of force – abandon command and control authority

o People keep commitments that they make

• Speaking up when something seems wrong is a crucial self-managing competency. If you choose not to speak up about a particular issue, you have chosen to tolerate it

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