Brave New Work: Are You Ready to Reinvent Your Organization?

by Aaron Dignan

Set aside funds every quarter to be allocated by the team using participatory budgeting. Invite everyone to spend 20 percent of their time (or more) working on whatever inspires them. Break the work into sprints to learn faster and reduce risk. Limit work in progress to a specific number of projects, initiatives, or tasks. Eliminate all status updates, project reviews, and other bureaucratic theater. Eliminate or repurpose one- on-ones that gravitate toward permission or politics. Hold regular governance meetings to update agreements, rules, policies, roles, and structures. Elect a facilitator and scribe on every team to keep meetings productive and documented. Use a meeting moratorium to rebuild our operating rhythm from scratch. Learn and leverage proven meeting structures that consistently move the work forward. Hold regular retrospectives to build learning into every team, project, and initiative. Begin meetings with a chance to get present and check in as human beings. End meetings by observing what we—as a team—can do