[OSList] "Building Self-Management Muscles"

[Rosa Zubizarreta via OSList]

Hi Christine,

Thank you for the blog post link. I don't have a specific response to your
question at the moment, just a larger concern about the need to put out
positive news about successful participatory management efforts, especially
given the negative press that the initiative at Zappo's has been getting.

 However well-deserved much of the criticism may be, my concern is that a
lot of the mainstream press has been using it as a way of putting down ALL
participatory management, and I don't think that helps the larger effort
that the rest of us are involved in. So especially from that perspective, I
appreciate your sharing the above link...

with all best wishes,

Rosa


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On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 11:22 PM, Christine Whitney Sanchez via OSList <
oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

> Nice job, Kevin!  Take a look, everyone...
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/great-work-cultures/building-self-management_b_7859320.html
>
> Yesterday, I had a conversation with one of my long-time clients, the COO
> of a nonprofit org, who teaches nonprofit management at a couple of
> universities.  In her organization, they have a team-based culture that
> supports some self-managed teams and some teams with supervisors, depending
> on their level of development according to some collectively created
> criteria.
>
> She commented that in an organization with a relatively small number of
> paid staff (70 FTEs, 55 Seasonal Staff, 2,000 volunteers) one of the
> challenges of self-managed functional teams is how quickly they become
> silos.  From her perspective, self-managed cross-functional teams tend to
> spend too much time trying to understand what everyone does - these often
> don’t feel like teams but more like gaggles of loosely connected colleagues
> .
>
> I would love to hear stories from any of you in our global community about
> successful self-managed teams in nonprofit orgs or in any type of org with
> under 100 FTEs.
>
> Warm wishes from a toasty Phoenix evening,
>
> Christine
>
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