Welcoming back repeat guest, Rod Collins, former CEO, author of "Wiki Management" and thought leader on the future of business transformation. To listen to Rod's other iconoclastic episodes, go to episodes 59 and 72 of Manage Self, Lead Others.
To view the video version go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8Q_s7HNFxg
Episode 59: https://youtu.be/F7AFj9Upl9w Self-managing Teams and Collective Intelligence.
Episode 72: https://youtu.be/9BOkUFczYtA The Digital Fork in the Road
TALKING POINTS
In the 21st century the sustainable competitive advantage is not operational efficiency, it's the capacity to adapt to change.
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“Nobody is smarter than everybody” is the fundamental design principle for self-managed, peer-to-peer networks. The contrasting design principle for centralized hierarchies is “trust authority”. These are two very different ways of designing organizations.
When you give the elite few command and control authority to shut down dissenting views you create an incredible intelligence blind spot that could be fatal to a company. And when you leverage the elite few, you're leveraging their unconscious cognitive biases.
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If you have a networked organization, you're a team of teams (to use General Stanley McChrystal's language). And so rather than be organized by departments, you're organized by cross functional teams. These teams typically have anywhere from 7 to 12 people.
Jeff Bezos has an analogy called the Two Pizza Rule - team should never be larger than can be fed by two pizzas
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The Gore company uses collective intelligence to do its performance appraisal process. Rather than a five page document assessing people 1 to 5, Gore uses a simple process. Everyone is rated by about 20 people and everybody will rate about 20 people. These are people you closely work with on a day to day basis. They ask one question, rate this person's contribution to the company.
This 11,000 person company today still maintains its boss list self management structure because gore is made up of of a collection of units that average about 100 and 50 people.
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ABOUT ROD COLLINS
Rod Collins is a leading expert and thought leader on the future of business transformation. Rod’s books, blogs, podcasts, and speeches inspire through their use of storytelling and leading-edge ideas.
Rod’s most recent research is around how the exponential growth of the Internet of Things, developments in blockchain technology, and advances in artificial intelligence will merge together into an integrated network that will become the platform for a human-machine symbiosis that enables an extraordinary leap in human intelligence and the transformation of all human institutions.
https://rodcollins.net/
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