Category Open

The word ‘open’ now underpins everything we do at Teal Unicorn. We believe the words ‘agile’ and ‘agility’ are overworked, over-stretched to cover more than the words actually mean. What do we mean by ‘open’?

Open Work, Open Management, open architecture, open systems design, open source, open access, open door, open space, open communication, open discussion, open leadership, open innovation, open for business, open ended, open up, open book, open eyes, open minded, open hearted.

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Enterprise Architecture isn’t my field. I did study Zachman decades ago (had a one-day training from the man himself!), but I haven’t done much.

I needed to summarise our ideas at Teal Unicorn in the context of architecture and this is what I came up with:

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Optimism is a duty. The future is open. It is not predetermined. No one can predict it, except by chance. We all contribute to determining it by what we do. We are all equally responsible for its success.
– Karl Popper

What Great Remote Managers Do Differently, HBR. I’m going to quote at length. Read the article. It reinforces everything we say at Teal Unicorn:

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For the philosophers of work amongst you, here’s something to think about before you get into debates over concepts like Agile or Industry 4.0.  They don’t much matter.

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Why do we need “Open”? what is wrong with “Agile” or “Agility”?

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The grumpy bosses and their acolytes are active on social media trolling anyone pointing to the future of work. Hot topics right now are of course remote working, ESG, and politics the workplace

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From our book Open Management:

a manager is not necessarily a decision maker, in fact they usually shouldn’t be. I identify (at least) six modes of group decision-making:

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We are revamping our newsletter. We already send one every month or three. We will try to be more regular, monthly at first, maybe more often in future. It will still have news of what we are doing, and it will now also include interesting things we have seen on the topic of Open Work, our collective term for all the better ways of working and managing work which are emerging around the world. So if you aren’t already on our mailing list, sign up now.