My third of three posts for The Nasstarian has now been published. Entitled The Flatter Organisational Structure Of The Future, it’s a look at organisations that do very well because of less organisational hierarchy (and bureaucracy).
Here’s an excerpt:
The three examples below are primarily from the world of technology: these are fast-moving organisations who can’t let layers of middle-management get in the way of getting a product or service to market. What I hope this overview of flatter hierarchies inspires you to do is to think carefully about your next re-organisation. Instead of shuffling the deckchairs, could you instead introduce one of these approaches?
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Note: I’ve closed comments here to encourage you to comment on the original post.
This week I’ve been:
- Ill. Mostly over last weekend, really, but I felt pretty rough on Monday. Just a cold (I can’t pretend it was ‘flu’ given I always get my shot) but I was glad to get rid of it!
- Sending out Thought Shrapnel, my weekly newsletter. Ostensibly it’s about education, technology, and productivity, but really it’s me trying to make sense of the many and varied things I’ve ready over the past week. Issue 242 included many things, including why ‘screen time’ is a useless concept.
- Supporting a webinar, the second of a series from We Are Open Co-op and Educators Co-op. This one was on designing an effective badging website, led by Steve Regur, with help from Laura Hilliger and me. You can catch the recording and a short write-up via this post.
- Travelling for the first time in 2017, this time to Jersey. I’ve got plenty coming up over the next few weeks…
- Working with staff at Victoria College on their digital strategy. The staff are lovely there, they really are.
- Reading more of Deep Work by Cal Newport and starting Luc P. Beaudoin’s Cognitive Productivity. I’m more impressed with the former than the latter.
- Announcing a BADGE BOOTCAMP in London on February 15th. Spread the word!
- Making changes to, and launching the WordPress version of, our new church website. Straightforward stuff, but just takes time.
- Putting the final things in place around upcoming trips to Geneva and Rome with new clients.
- Sending out Issue #002 of Badge News, a roundup of news for the Open Badges community.
- Writing:
Next week I’m working from home, setting up my new laptop (which should arrive on Monday) and then heading to London for BETT. I’ll be there on Friday afternoon and all day Saturday. If you’ll be there, send me a tweet! (@dajbelshaw)
I earn my living helping people and organisations become more productive in their use of technology. If you’ve got something that you think I, or the co-op I’m part of may be able to help with, please do get in touch! Email addresses below:
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Update: We’ve cancelled this workshop as we didn’t get enough sign-ups to make it viable. We’ll be launching something with the same name on the same day — stay tuned!
In yesterday’s webinar, my colleagues and I at We Are Open Co-op announced a live, in-person Open Badges workshop. We’re holding it in London on February 15th.
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Early-bird tickets are now available and likely to sell pretty quickly, as we’re limiting them to ensure quality of interaction.
We’ll be covering:
- What are Open Badges – and where did they come from?
- How people are using badges in many different sectors
- When it’s a good badges are a great idea – and
- Why badges are the answer to lots of different problems
- Who to connect to in the Open Badges community, and where
More details, including ticket prices, are on the Eventbrite page. I’d love to see you there! If you’ve got questions, ask them in the comments below, or tweet @dajbelshaw / @WeAreOpenCoop
