EP 131: The Human Workplace: People-Centred Organizational Development with Andy Swann

“The digital transformation is over. We live in an age where digital is the default setting. Anyone who is yet to transform is either obsolete or on the way there.” - Andy Swann

The modern world and old organizations are not compatible. Right now, we’re communicating, thinking, collaborating, sharing, working and playing in ways that couldn’t have been imagined two decades ago, yet somehow many of our businesses and the structures employed to operate them remain the same, carrying on in the way they always have. There are many reasons why this is completely unsustainable and we’re going to explore these as we journey through what makes a human workplace.

The human workplace is one that adapts, innovates fast, involves everyone, communicates, understands and acts in perpetuity. It creates relationships rather than transactions. People are emotional, responsive, individual. That’s what our organizations need to be, creating a story and telling it in their own way.

Our guest is the author of The Human Workplace: People-Centred Organizational Development, Andy Swann

We talk:

• The Startup Myth
• Collective Energy
• Purposeful Organisations
• The definition of A human workplace
• Connection with community
• Agility
• Complex, dispersed organizations
• Purpose = Survival + X
• When the community thrives, the organization thrives.
• The problem with hierarchy (is not what you think)
• The organisation as a platform
• Just enough structure to thrive
• Holes and wholes?
• Scaling up startups and the Dunbar number.
• Why and how does personal purpose come before company purpose?

More about Andy Swann here:

https://andyswann.co.uk/