Comments on: Wild lions and the design of a new kind of company http://blog.mindvalley.com/2008/03/21/wild-lions-and-the-design-of-a-new-kind-of-company/ This is where we tell stories about work, life, and our mission to make history... Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:51:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: mma http://blog.mindvalley.com/2008/03/21/wild-lions-and-the-design-of-a-new-kind-of-company/#comment-62954 mma Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:39:57 +0000 http://blog.mindvalley.com/2008/03/21/wild-lions-and-the-design-of-a-new-kind-of-company/#comment-62954 I find this blog very interesting, i will be here everyday till now. Greetings I find this blog very interesting, i will be here everyday till now. Greetings

]]> By: Joe http://blog.mindvalley.com/2008/03/21/wild-lions-and-the-design-of-a-new-kind-of-company/#comment-37932 Joe Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:17:48 +0000 http://blog.mindvalley.com/2008/03/21/wild-lions-and-the-design-of-a-new-kind-of-company/#comment-37932 After working for big multinationals for the past 5 years ... I finally got to work in a startup environment ... work satisfaction has never been so gret ... hmmmm However, big corporations do have its benefits ... especially for those who enjoy laying back and want job security .... After working for big multinationals for the past 5 years … I finally got to work in a startup environment … work satisfaction has never been so gret … hmmmm

However, big corporations do have its benefits … especially for those who enjoy laying back and want job security ….

]]> By: khailee http://blog.mindvalley.com/2008/03/21/wild-lions-and-the-design-of-a-new-kind-of-company/#comment-37621 khailee Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:41:26 +0000 http://blog.mindvalley.com/2008/03/21/wild-lions-and-the-design-of-a-new-kind-of-company/#comment-37621 hey dude thx for sharing!!! im going out to buy the book immediately. look forward to having a deeper face to face discussion abt this :) hey dude thx for sharing!!! im going out to buy the book immediately. look forward to having a deeper face to face discussion abt this :)

]]> By: Juan Martitegui http://blog.mindvalley.com/2008/03/21/wild-lions-and-the-design-of-a-new-kind-of-company/#comment-37590 Juan Martitegui Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:20:46 +0000 http://blog.mindvalley.com/2008/03/21/wild-lions-and-the-design-of-a-new-kind-of-company/#comment-37590 Hi Khailee, here is Juan from Argentina. This it is really an interesting topic. From my experience working in BIG organizations (IBM, for ex.) and smalls ones (my AIESEC LC or my own small company) I write my point of view. Perhaps you've read it but I can suggest this book: The Starfish and the Spider - The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations (Hardcover) http://www.amazon.com/Starfish-Spider-Unstoppable-Leaderless-Organizations/dp/1591841437 Some extra info: http://www.starfishandspider.com/index.php?title=About_the_Book It gives some really good advices for growing an Organization avoiding "tree structure" I think not all advices are applyable, at least without doing some modifications, there are some "out of the box" ideas. From my perspective the problem is that it is difficult or hard to pay the cost of this organizations because you have to live with some "irrational" decisions. - should tolerate that perhaps the organization it is making the same thing twice. You can try to avoid this by Blogs (for ex. Google Blogs http://googleblog.blogspot.com/) or Wikis... but if someone does not read it... you duplicate efforts! And that is hard to accept - should tolerate a loss of political power if you have small groups with more freedom and less processes - should tolerate another leaderships styles in those small groups - should share some revenue with the small groups In the other hand you will have a flexible, funny, innovative organization. For me the keyword is: FRAMEWORK The image is: It is very difficult (if not impossible) to have a very fast, flexible and innovative 2000 persons structure, with good communication, etc. but is is possible to have 100 mini teams of 20 persons running under the same FRAMEWORK A Leader that wants to grow an Organization avoiding the "tree structure" you should create a strong FRAMEWORK and allow descentralization. You can only empower (and control if you want) to use that FRAMEWORK. Let's think about wikipedia, or kazaa, or any opensource project. It is fun to collaborate. If you agree with the FRAMEWORK you are ok. Or let's think about AIESEC or JCI. In the practice I think that Scrum Meetings and Agile Methodologies but applying rotation methods (you are not going to be in the same Scrum all the weeks) can be a cheap solution for this. I don´t want to leave a "bible comment" so I'll stop. Anyway I hope we can talk about this topic personally. I'm very excited to join Mindvalley soon. Let me know your thoughts about my oppinion. I wanna learn from this. Hugs, JIM Hi Khailee, here is Juan from Argentina. This it is really an interesting topic.
From my experience working in BIG organizations (IBM, for ex.) and smalls ones (my AIESEC LC or my own small company) I write my point of view.

Perhaps you’ve read it but I can suggest this book:

The Starfish and the Spider - The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations (Hardcover)
http://www.amazon.com/Starfish-Spider-Unstoppable-Leaderless-Organizations/dp/1591841437
Some extra info: http://www.starfishandspider.com/index.php?title=About_the_Book

It gives some really good advices for growing an Organization avoiding “tree structure”
I think not all advices are applyable, at least without doing some modifications, there are some “out of the box” ideas.

From my perspective the problem is that it is difficult or hard to pay the cost of this organizations because you have to live with some “irrational” decisions.

- should tolerate that perhaps the organization it is making the same thing twice. You can try to avoid this by Blogs (for ex. Google Blogs http://googleblog.blogspot.com/) or Wikis… but if someone does not read it… you duplicate efforts! And that is hard to accept
- should tolerate a loss of political power if you have small groups with more freedom and less processes
- should tolerate another leaderships styles in those small groups
- should share some revenue with the small groups

In the other hand you will have a flexible, funny, innovative organization.

For me the keyword is: FRAMEWORK
The image is: It is very difficult (if not impossible) to have a very fast, flexible and innovative 2000 persons structure, with good communication, etc. but is is possible to have 100 mini teams of 20 persons running under the same FRAMEWORK

A Leader that wants to grow an Organization avoiding the “tree structure” you should create a strong FRAMEWORK and allow descentralization. You can only empower (and control if you want) to use that FRAMEWORK.

Let’s think about wikipedia, or kazaa, or any opensource project. It is fun to collaborate. If you agree with the FRAMEWORK you are ok. Or let’s think about AIESEC or JCI.

In the practice I think that Scrum Meetings and Agile Methodologies but applying rotation methods (you are not going to be in the same Scrum all the weeks) can be a cheap solution for this.

I don´t want to leave a “bible comment” so I’ll stop. Anyway I hope we can talk about this topic personally. I’m very excited to join Mindvalley soon.

Let me know your thoughts about my oppinion. I wanna learn from this.

Hugs, JIM

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