Organizational Development

A Liberatory Approach to Pay*: A Case Study in Needs-based Money Distribution Part 2

Greaterthan and Nonviolent Global Liberation project team

Part 2: Lessons Learned in the Experiment. A case study of our six-month experiment that explores money distribution based on needs rather than work done.

A Liberatory Approach to Pay*: A Case Study in Needs-based Money Distribution

Greaterthan and Nonviolent Global Liberation project team

Part 1: The Experiment Structure. A case study of our six-month experiment that explores money distribution based on needs rather than work done.

Business Unusual: Greaterthan as an experiment in collective business

Francesca Pick

Greaterthan Collective was founded on the idea that we need to question the foundations that current ‘businesses-as-usual’ is built upon. We’re more like a business unusual , but we still choose to call ourselves a business. Why?

Scaling Consciously: Rethinking the Startup Ecosystem with a Long-Term View

Ashish Arora and Manel Heredero

How Greaterthan supports startups and investors in scaling consciously—helping them build companies that are not only financially successful but also socially, ecologically, and relationally regenerative.

Retrit: find your perfect retreat venue

Manel Heredero

A database of our favorite retreat venues for participatory team retreats and offsites.

Designing regenerative organisations — part II

By Alicia Trepat

A showcase of some of the findings from the collaborative research process between Unearthodox and Greaterthan, and why we chose not to display these in traditional wide-spread knowledge-sharing practices.

A journey of a self-managing organization: Behind Greaterthan's work with Centrifuge

by Tomomi Sasaki, Stephanie Soussloff and Susan Basterfield

Pulling back the veil of what it’s like to partner with Greaterthan in a journey to self-organizing

Learning How to End Well

by Alicia Trepat

Networks have a high degree of self-organising, so closing a network is very different from closing a traditional organisation. In the latter a few people at the top make the decision, which has consequences for everyone else working there. It’s not possible to just shut networks down

Designing Regenerative Organisations

by Alicia Trepat

An introduction to a research project by Greaterthan and Unearthodox's about what makes a regenerative organisation.

Youtube Channel

by Greaterthan members

Re-watch the many events and talks we have hosted with guests and given ourselves, on our youtube channel.

Affectively: Season 2 of the How Podcast

by Alicia Trepat

Greaterthan's podcast mini-series 'Affectively' about Alicia Trepat's research about Affect in Self- Organising groups.

The How Podcast | Season 1

by Francesca Pick, Susan Basterfield and Lyssa Adkins

Introducing The HOW, Greaterthan’s new show and podcast on organisational change - the future of work is already here... it's just unevenly distributed. Join us and learn how to practise a new kind of leadership, where we interrogate hierarchy, wrangle with power and centralised decision making, and subtract ‘management’ from change management. In episode 1 we kick-off season 1 of The HOW and explore how we got here.

The Network Dynamics that Shaped TED

by Manel Heredero

It is undeniable that TED is a remarkable example of an innovative organisation that is having a huge impact. They are accomplishing their mission of spreading ideas worth spreading, and building a phenomenal business at the same time. Here are some lessons from their journey, from a network lens.

Retreats Matter

by Manel Heredero

How teams gather is becoming ever more important due to the growth of remote work and the increasing number of project-based teams.

Are You Winning Or Losing?

by Sally McCutchion

Some thoughts on the binary nature of how society has evolved and the harm it's causing, even to the winners.

Embodiment- why does it matter for organizations?

by Ashish Arora

This article is the author's attempt to highlight how embodiment is important for organizations, particularly when it comes to creating safe spaces or inspiring people to collaborate.

Signs that you are blocking self management in your organisation

by Ashish Arora

The article explores how the founders of the organisations sometimes end up becoming a block for their transition towards self-management. It also provides insights on how to work around such blindspots. The article is based on the author's work with clients in India.

We Need To Talk About Compensation

by Sally McCutchion

There is an historical precedent that says talking about money is uncouth, impolite or improper. Our view is this precedent is outdated. Join Sally McCutchion in this article, with her key principles around compensation, salary transparency and impact levelling.

Where Do Why Be?

by Elena Denaro, David Weingartner, Tomomi Sasaki, Manel Heredero

Creating the guide to Greaterthan’s practice

Recruitment in a Distributed Organisation

by Manel Heredero

This is the story of in99, a small legaltech startup, that put in place a process to recruit high-quality professionals without a HR department and without one-on-one interviews. Doing this is part of their journey towards what they call a “Distributed Future”, which includes, amongst other things, becoming a Remote First company.

Agile Team in BlackwoodSeven

by Francesca Pick

Read about how the marketing agency BlackwoodSeven experimented with Cobudget.

Building Thriving Networks

by Alicia Trepat Pont

“There’s a lot of love in our network, but not enough care”, “We don’t have enough money to cover our admin costs this year”. If you’ve ever been in a supporting role related to finances or value flows in a community or network, you can surely relate to some of these situations.

Rethinking Organizations: Human Services

by Susan Basterfield

Rethinking Organisations enabled Support Providers in Western Australia to explore alternative organisational theory and practices that could potentially benefit the human services sector. This resource shares the outcomes and learnings from this project.

Cut the bullshit: organizations with no hierarchy don’t exist

by Francesca Pick

Do completely horizontal organizations truly exist? Fueled by excitement about self-management, bossless leadership and models such as Holacracy, we increasingly hear unrealistic claims about the potential of “flat organizations”.

Reinventing Business Education

by Susan Basterfield

We have a choice about how we want to work. Will we settle for the old paradigm of the corporation, or have we mustered the courage to create new systems that better reflect our needs and potential?

Better Work Together: the story behind the book

by Anthony Cabraal

This is the story behind Better Work Together, Enspiral's first book, co-authored by a collection of 11 members. A book about their personal journeys with the network and how the power of community can transform your business.

How to Remote — common challenges with remote work

by Joriam Philipe

The invisible challenge of remote work is that many things happen automatically when you’re face to face — and it might take you a while to realize what’s missing in online interaction.

Work with Source

by Tom Nixon

Realise big ideas, organise for emergence and work artfully with money. A guide based on Peter Koenig's "Source Principles".

Moose Heads on the Table

by Lisa Gill

What does leadership look like in a company with no bosses? How do you develop a culture that allows self-managing organisations to thrive? In this book, Lisa Gill and Karin Tenelius share stories and insights from nearly twenty years of coaching teams and organisations to become self-managing.

Lead Together

by Susan Basterfield, Travis Marsh, Brent Lowe

Lead Together illuminates practices from the leaders of more than sixty scaling businesses at the vanguard of this movement about the on-the-ground challenges and rewards of adopting a new paradigm for work.

Better Work Together

by Enspiral

A collection of stories and tools from the front lines of the future of working together. A collectively produced book by members of the Enspiral community, and actively supported by Greaterthan.

Maptio

by Tom Nixon

The simplest way to visualise self-managing organizations: Circles, People, Roles