Opening Up About Compensation Isn’t Easy — Here’s How to Get More Transparent buff.ly/2tYOn1R

What does it mean to create and design in service of reconciliation? These brilliant thinkers articulate a new version of the design thinking process that integrates our legacies of racism and oppression... buff.ly/2FfKpIz

Working with Difficult Emotions: Phillip Moffitt, Co-Guiding Teacher at Spirit Rock and author of "Dancing with Life," talks about how to use mindfulness practice to work with difficult or strong emotions such as anger.

Racism and Inequity are products of design. They can be redesigned. Learn how to build your capacity as an equityXdesigner.

Hierarchy is just a shape of organizing people and work. What's really inspiring and interesting? Figuring out how to reduce/eliminate coercion in organizations and transparently map/document how power works so everybody can understand it. buff.ly/2TPWjRj

The Bodhisattva Toolkit: Intention, Spiritual Practice, Non-attachment, Action, History and Analysis, Community —from Diana Winston

The future’s lazy medium.com/infinitebeta/a…

RT Karina Mangu-Ward: Interesting read. “It turns out that holacracy has limited contingencies for what happens if things start going south. Who makes the big decisions about cutting staffing, hours, or expenses? And things do go wrong.” buff.ly/2K7G8LQ

You might think agile ways of working just won't work for your org. But there are a few ways into practices that make a big difference in creating high-performing teams. My pal Karina Mangu-Ward describes three types of agile teams that any org can use buff.ly/2VamrHs

There are somewhere between 36 and 56 million meetings every day in the US – it’s time to stop applying band-aids, and talk about how we fix this scourge forever. Here's how to solve your meeting problems starting tomorrow. buff.ly/2IIZXqw

"The queer art of failure involves the acceptance of the finite, the embrace of the absurd, the silly, and the hopelessly goofy. Rather than resisting endings and limits, let us instead revel in and cleave to all of our own inevitable, fantastic failures."

As organizational design leader at August Public Inc., Alexis GonzalesBlack believes that when given the right environment, people are able to manage themselves. Here's how she uses #OKRs to turn what some may consider a pipe dream into a very successful reality. whatmatters.com/stories/manage…

“OKRS allow you to set clear goals, clear measures of success, and then empower people to fulfill those in whatever way they know how.” -Alexis Gonzales-Black Alexis GonzalesBlack August Public Inc. #OKRs

We are hiring Senior Transformation Consultants in our Oakland office! Why do I love working here? We're fun, we're doing work that transforms people's lives, & we're integrating racial & gender equity into org designs of the future. Will you join us? buff.ly/2ZZy57R

"Same-sex spouses feel more satisfied with their partners than heterosexual ones and spend more time with their kids." Whew, glad I've been doing something right... #satisfied nytimes.com/2020/02/13/opi…

Safe places to visit during this Corona pandemic: placestovisitthisweekend.com

Many, including me, have said that we are all in this together. It’s becoming increasingly, distressingly clear that we really aren’t. psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-fe…

For most of us, the illusion of certainty has quickly fallen away. What new mindset are you trying on as you settle into the unknown?

Competitive internal culture can be toxic and destroy innovation. Here's my take on a few things you can do to shift toward cooperation. Not a comprehensive list but a place to start. Let me know what you've tried! #organizationalculture medium.com/@michaelgregor…