Addressing Complexity by Learning fast with BOSSA nova
summary
BOSSA nova combines Beyond Budgeting, Open Space, Sociocracy and Agility and recommends small safe-to-fail probes to handle VUCA complexity: reflect, form a hypothesis, run short experiments (example: a handful of employees start by sharing salaries), measure results over a defined period (one pilot ran three months), iterate and share learnings company-wide. Concrete probes include peer-based salary decisions using secret sticky-note “poker” and removing a boardroom table to increase openness; both changed behavior and were retained or evolved. Peer decision salary trials foster transparency and ongoing refinement.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Start
- 1:15What comes to your mind when you hear the word complexity?
- 4:10Beyond Budgeting
- 4:52Understanding Complexity
- 15:54Reflect on Your Situation
- 19:02Design Probes
- 19:51Publish to Your Peers
- 22:14Can peer decision-making about promotion support alignment?
- 25:56Looking Back on the Future
- 26:29Learning Fast Means: Thinking Beyond Agility
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