Life in a Matrix

Regular readers will know that we think there is too much cooperation going on - and this is the subject of the first episode of our new free podcast series
 
A subset of this is the seemingly overwhelming urge to share information.
 

 
How often on our conference calls do we experience a moment like the one […]

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Welcome to the first ever “Life in a Matrix” podcast on matrix management.

Kevan Hall, CEO of Global integration and author of the book Speed Lead talks about what is different about cooperation in large, matrix, virtual, global and other complex teams and organizations. 
 
He thinks that too much unnecessary cooperation, communication & control makes complex companies […]

 

 Episode 1 - Too much cooperation going on [9:41m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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I watched a program last night about city brokers holding a downhill ski racing day. It was all very lavish and the organizer justified it by saying “But its all great team-building” It irritated me because there is a lot of money spent on questionable team-building.
I am sorry but skiing fast downhill on your own […]

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Matrix organization structures are usually introduced to break down the “silos” that stop people cooperating laterally across the organization. If they are successful then (unsurprisingly) what you get is more people cooperating across the business!
But be careful what you wish for.
If you find your “one team approach” (very popular at the moment) leads to lots […]

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In the 24 hours after our emailer on Tuesday (see post on interruptions below) over 300 people came to the blog and 250 more went to the Global Integration site and downloaded one of our articles.
The most popular article was The Teamwork Myth which was published in Human Capital magazine recently (it’s a 2MB pdf so be […]

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