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A Talk with the Remarkable Dr. Peter Koestenbaum

A Talk with the Remarkable Dr. Peter Koestenbaum

I recently traveled to the Carmel home of Dr. Peter Koestenbaum, co-author with Peter Block of Freedom and Accountability at Work. Through prior correspondence, Dr. Koestenbaum was familiar with the idea of organizational self-management. Now 85 years young, he still works hard traveling, writing, speaking and consulting with businesses (at the time of the visit…

Extreme Teamwork: Solving the Coordination Problem at 400 Miles Per Hour

Extreme Teamwork: Solving the Coordination Problem at 400 Miles Per Hour

  The Canadian Snowbirds Demonstration Team has been thrilling audiences at high-performance air shows across North America since 1978.  A branch of the Canadian Air Force, one would think such a group would be rigidly hierarchical—but it’s not.  It’s really quite self-managed. One of the joys of working with the Morning Star Self-Management Institute is…

Self-Management and Synchronicity

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…