From Hierarchy to High Performance: Unleashing the Extraordinary Superpowers of Ordinary People to Realize Extraordinary Results

Can people manage themselves at work without bosses, managers and supervisors? Can people lead and innovate in real-time response to new opportunities and challenges? Can organizations create work environments where people are free to thrive and do their best work? Can leaders develop organizations where everyone has a voice in matters that affect them, and where no one has to “lean in” because they’re already in?

Fortunately, the answer to all these questions is a resounding “yes”. We are now experiencing a Cambrian Explosion of self-managing, self-organizing and self-leading companies in a breathtakingly diverse global cross section of industries. We’ll explore how such organizations out-VUCA the VUCA world by managing complexity with simplicity.

• Learn How to Create a Highly Scalable Enterprise Without Bosses and Titles
• Learn How to Drive Organizational Agility, Innovation and Resilience through Organizational Self-Management
• Learn How Organizational Self-Management Can Create Strategic Business Advantage
• Learn How to Slash the Costs of Management, the Least Efficient Activity of Any Enterprise

Sandy Mamoli will share her story of implementing Holacracy at a New Zealand tech company, whose CTO gave her a one-line instruction: “I’d like you to make it happen.”

In her talk Sandy will share how Snapper created a truly self-organising organisation where everyone is empowered to make decisions. She will share her successes and failures and talk about what worked and what didn’t.

About Sandy

Sandy Mamoli is an Agile coach at Nomad8, a small but perfrectly shaped Agile consultancy in Auckland and Wellington. She’s a former Olympian, a geek, a gadget junkie, international speaker and author of “Creating Great Teams – How Self-Selection Lets People Excel”. She has a masters degree in artificial intelligence and knows quite a lot about Agile.

Alex Basa is a Lead IT Agile Coach at Centene Corporation, working on his third agile transformation.  He’d like to share his current approach to tackling organization design in a healthcare company.  He will share the following points:

• What approach to structural agility has he tried in the past?  What did he learn from it?
• How different is his approach today?  What would be the benefit for new organizational structures?
• What would a workshop look like for it?  Who would attend it?
• What were the lessons learned by this approach?

In addition to those areas, he will talk about some anti-patterns that he has seen in approaching the creation of a Product Management organization as well as some of the things that would need to be in place before facilitating a workshop like this.