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What Rules Do Communities Follow?
The answer to that question is simple: NONE. It is not that communities are disorganized and chaotic but Our Communities do not follow rules as they are currently understood and documented. The...
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How can someone Join a Community? Can people leave a Community?
Joining a Community is Simple Everyone can ask to join a community if it is open to integrate new members. Once again, the community decides how many members it will allow and which skill set, profile...
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Stop telling me HOW to do my job
“Americans hate their jobs more than ever” … ”Majority of Americans dislike their jobs” … These are only 2 examples of a quick google search that returned over 44.1 million pages. Try “I hate my job”...
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FAQ: Communities in the context of business
Since my first post on this topic, a few people asked me why I thought communities were a new way to organize and what complexity there was in applying communities to a business setting (i.e....
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Rules aren’t created for those who will comply
I already wrote about our non-traditional organizational structure and the increasing reliance on communities the organize our teams. I recently had an interesting conversation about the use of rules...
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The Strategic Café or “A bottom-up approach to setting a corporate strategy”...
If you ever had a chance to participate in a Strategy Definition meeting, you either had a good time because YOU were dictating the strategy to follow or had an awful experience because your...
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The Strategic Café or “A bottom-up approach to setting a corporate strategy”...
As a follow-up to my earlier blog post on this topic, below is the agenda of our meeting as well as the questions asked during the sessions. If you are not already doing so, I strongly recommend you...
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A Few Quotes from Peter Senge on Communities
In chapter 10 (Shared Vision) of his book The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization, Peter Senge’s touches on the topic of Communities. Below are some quotes I got from...
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Want to join Pyxis? Here is a message to the new employees
Welcome If you did not already notice, Pyxis is a different company. You have surely seen that the number of smiles per hour is much higher than in traditional organizations. There are several reasons...
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Rebuilding Companies as Communities
In a post on our internal wiki, Eric suggested we have a look at a recent HBR article by Henry Mintzberg – Rebuilding Companies as Communities. Using a non-traditional organizational structure within...
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