All posts by Rob England

Establish a guild, or chapter, or community of practice, or whatever you choose to call a group with common skills.

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Managers, governors, and leaders must serve those who create value.

The phrase widely used is “servant leader” but we prefer “servant manager”. Not all managers are leaders and not all leaders are managers. “Servant leader” actually talks about how to manage.

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Invert the pyramid.

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Another variant of work visualisation is an obeya room: a space where strategy and programmes of work are made visible. An obeya room is the macro view, the “bridge of the ship”; whereas a Kanban board is a local view.

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From our book The agile Manager (small a)

The Working Group provides a way for like-minded individuals to find each other and provide mutual support, but it is loose. A stronger construct is to form triads of peers:

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From our book The agile Manager (small a)

One of the components of the change “machine” that we put in place at a client is a working group.

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From our book The agile Manager (small a)

Hacks are an effective way to cut through the noise to get to a resolution. They are a structured version of swarming.

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Here is our second cut of an Open Work Manifesto

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As fast as we think we are finishing one book, we identify another one to write.

We are working on the “Alpha” version of The Open Executive. There was an appendix in it on “how” that just got bigger and bigger.  At the same time, I developed How to Make Work Better, which included an executive journey.  So the appendix will be a large part of a new book as a sequel to The Open Executive, called The Open Executive Journey renamed already: Leading the Open Enterprise (still a provisional title).  Look for it, probably in 2025.