Interview with Morning Star’s Founder, Chris Rufer
I conducted a wide-ranging interview with the founder of Morning Star in December 2009, published at the link below: CJR
Self-Management and Synchronicity
Take one champion-step-dancing mom and a fiddle-playing dad from the Canadian heartland. Add eleven brothers and sisters, eight of whom have more talent than most living human beings, and what do you get? A musical phenomenon called Leahy. I was lucky enough to catch one of their Christmas Tour concerts a few years ago, and…
A Model for Systematic Performance Feedback in a Self‐Managed Work Environment: Creating Powerful Continuous Peer Feedback Loops
White Paper A Model for Systematic Performance Feedback in a Self-Managed Work Environment: Creating Powerful Continuous Peer Feedback Loops Self-managed work environments present a challenge for delivery of effective performance feedback. In a truly self-managed organization, there are no designated managers or supervisors, meaning that any performance feedback must originate with one’s peers. This works…
PCMA 10th Anniversary Conference, “Conversations that Shape the Future”
An honor to work with great colleagues to produce the Professional Coaches and Mentors Association (PCMA) 10th Anniversary Conference, Conversations that Shape the Future… As a member of the Board of Directors of the Northern California PCMA chapter, I directed marketing for the conference that took place at the Redwood City Sofitel October 5-6. 2007; featuring…
Building a High-Performance, Process-Oriented Culture at Morning Star: Creating a Structure for CLOUs and Steppingstones
Wrote this white paper in 2007 to develop a process culture and create real value from business processes at Morning Star. Although focused on Morning Star at the time, the principles and concepts in this paper may be applied universally. Thanks to Roger Burlton and his tireless support for inspiring this paper. Download the white…
Functional Hierarchies? We Don’t Need No Stinking Functional Hierarchies!
A tongue-in-cheek and entirely fictional flight of fancy from early 2005 describing the benefits of organizational self-management for business performance. Available at the links below: Functional Hierarchies? We Don’t Need No Stinking Functional Hierarchies! Original publication: BPM Group, January 2, 2005 With apologies to Gold Hat, as played by Alfonso Bedoya in “The Treasure of…