Permission to Speak Podcast. Hosted by Leadership Communications Expert Kelly Vandever. Episode #25 - Susan Basterfield. Permission to Speak is the video blog and podcast that loiters at the intersections of leaders who want their people to speak up, technology that facilitates connections, and results that serve an organization’s higher purpose. Topics covered in this episode include: - Treating work as experiments

- Seth Godin’s altMBA

- Self-Management Institute at Morning Star

- Enspiral

- Non-hierarchical organization

- Example of Enspiral venture companies: Loomio, Rabid Technologies, Orientation Aotearoa Life Hack, Action Station, Scoop, and more

- Enspiral Labs

- Enspiral’s Handbook – the scaffold

- Enspiral’s YouTube channel

- Suggested experiments from a self-managed organization for more traditional companies

- Experiment 1 – have employees write down what they actually do and what they’re actually accountable for and how they want to be held to account

- Be accountable to the work as a team

- Liberating Structures

- Competencies versus continued growth

- It still boils down to an enlightened CEO/President to make things change

- Reinventing Organizations

- Experiment 2 – Deciding how you want to make decisions, consider which of those decisions do you need you need to make yourself, which decisions can be delegated, or can you take advice on, or can you put out to the whole group

- Experiment 3 – Instead of line manager doing performance reviews, have peer do reviews for each other

- Be brave enough to step outside of your bubble of people that just confirm what we already believe