Episode description
Susan Basterfield is a Foundation Catalyst and Ambassador within the self-managing collective Enspiral and helps individuals and organisations worldwide experiment with new ways of working and being. She is also co-author of Reinventing Startups and has developed a a five-week immersive online programme called Practical Self-Management Intensive. We talk about self-management and learning through doing.
How to follow Susan:
- Twitter: @opentogrow
- Blog: https://medium.com/@opentogrow
- Website: http://opentogrow.co.nz/
Book of the week:
- “An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organisation” by Robert Kegan & Lisa Laskow Lahey
Other resources:
- Susan's latest Practical Self-Management Intensive course
- Here’s the website for Loomio, the collaborative decision-making tool Susan mentions they use in the self-management intensive
- Susan's blog about Enspiral's organisational refactor
- Here’s Jo Freeman’s piece on The Tyranny of Structurelessness
- The quote I mentioned (“Relationship work... is one of our evolutionary assignments”) comes from the book “Everything is Workable: A Zen Approach to Conflict Resolution” by Diane Musho Hamilton
- To learn more about Enspiral and how their Catalyst working group is set up, check out the Enspiral Handbook