Self-organizing groups and work groups are groups of learners. Everyone in the group may be an expert at something, but nobody in the group is an expert at what the group is attempting to do. I’ve seen this have remarkable impacts on learning. For example: People in the group learn from each other and about themselves If they stay together long enough, people in the group can … [Read More]
Apr 282010
A friend recently said this to me: “One of my master’s classes this quarter briefly touched on the topic of self-organizing systems. We discussed how this might work in government employment, but I was skeptical. I argued that this sort of peer work was not feasible in government since government lacked the mechanisms for weeding out weak contributors or “free riders” in the system. Am I too cynical?” … [Read More]
From my perspective, people as individuals often fear change. I know I do. But I’ve learned that people working as self-organizing work groups in organizations fear change far less than they did when working as individuals. These groups appear to support people in being more flexible and adaptable, not to mention more creative and resilient, than they are on their own. This appears to be … [Read More]
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