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  • Creating a Non-Hierarchical Organization, One Practice at a Time
  • Written by: Samantha Slade
  • Narrated by: Sandy Weaver
  • Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (5 ratings)

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Going Horizontal

Written by: Samantha Slade
Narrated by: Sandy Weaver
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Hierarchy in organizations is obsolete. There is a better way: one that increases the engagement of employees and managers alike, reduces micromanaging and other limiting approaches, and promotes organizational and individual success.

In this book, self-management expert Samantha Slade presents seven concrete practices to help your organization flatten its existing hierarchy and develop a horizontal organization. The result will be enhanced creativity, greater growth, and an increased employee retention and productivity - and a better bottom line.

These days, more than ever, successful organizations must respond quickly and nimbly to change - they need every employee’s best thinking. A horizontal organization creates an environment of true collaboration, respect, and openness. It allows everyone more freedom to express unconventional ideas or to work through issues that are getting in the way of organizational goals. And it’s a more human way to organize - after all, we function perfectly well in our day-to day lives without someone telling us what to do.

But when an organization decides to go horizontal, it can be overwhelming for both managers and employees. Slade offers a practical, proven, incremental method to help organizations of all kinds and sizes ease in to a non-hierarchical model. She includes techniques for using your organization’s purpose to stay focused and aligned, developing shared decision-making, creating a mutual feedback culture, nurturing autonomy, holding co-managed meetings, and maintaining an environment of collective learning. 

Going Horizontal will help organizations become more adaptive, collaborative and innovative, which is vital in today’s highly competitive and constantly-evolving world.

©2018 Samantha Slade (P)2018 Samantha Slade

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Practicing the art of creating together

Samatha Slade offers us a very rich portfolios of practices that may help us to create together according to our highest collective expectations.
The audio book covers seven areas of practices covering all the depth of a non-hierarchical way of working together. We found a good balance between the foundation of non-hierarchical work (e.g. : purpose, autonomy and learning) and collaborative practices (e.g.: meetings, decision-making, relationship and conflicts). The four-fold practice of the Art of Hosting may be an interesting framework to explore the relationship between the seven areas of practices. Each practices presented in the book is exemplified. It makes it easier to connect with them and explorer some ways to experiment them. Some practices are presented with more depth than others.

Going Horizontal offers us a powerful gift. It remembers us that we don't need permission to advance on our personal journey to non-hierarchical relationship. So many ways to deepen our practice are proposed that we can find the ones that are more adapted to our situation.

I will listen again many times.

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Excellence book

very informative very interesting clarifies perspective and give some very practical Hands-On exercises to guide you through to change . I will definitely apply some of this in my business

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