02 — 2018 — 2024
Organization
Culture as an engineering problem. Spiral Dynamics applied to real teams, and what comes after Teal.
Organizations are systems. They have constraints, feedback loops, and failure modes — the difference is that the components can argue back.
I led engineering teams of up to a hundred people across two decades and two continents. The series here maps what I found onto Spiral Dynamics, then goes past it: the model explains why a company is stuck, not what to build instead. That part I had to work out myself.
Selected writing
- 2019 Evolution of organizational culture - Red organizations 2 min
- 2019 Evolution of organizational culture - Amber organizations 1 min
- 2019 Evolution of organizational culture - Orange organizations 2 min
- 2019 Evolution of organizational culture - Green organizations 2 min
- 2019 Evolution of organizational culture - Teal organizations 2 min
- 2019 Beyond organizational culture 3 min
- 2020 ElectricBlue - Beyond Teal organization 3 min
- 2022 Power of empowerment 1 min
- 2023 The real cost of ignorance of ownership mindset 1 min
- 2024 HR as exponential technology 1 min
The third system is live
Daily notes on the body, the measurements, and what the data says.