Clean Work thesis
Clean work: Is the result of good decisions
Good decisions: Are made by flourishing people
Flourishing people: Are seen heard and valued
People are seen heard and valued: In environments where they collaborate meaningfully on challenging work
Such an environments can be created
So the story you're changing is "leadership requires control, anxiety, distrust, being an asshole or a hero" - and you're replacing it with "the power of the collective is what actually works."
Good decisions: Are made by flourishing people
Flourishing people: Are seen heard and valued
People are seen heard and valued: In environments where they collaborate meaningfully on challenging work
Such an environments can be created
So the story you're changing is "leadership requires control, anxiety, distrust, being an asshole or a hero" - and you're replacing it with "the power of the collective is what actually works."
- A meeting measurement tool
- EE submission
- Perma profiler
Content
On it's simplest and most ancient form, work is what we do to make our lives better.
The problem we have here is anxious leadership
So the story you're changing is "leadership requires control, anxiety, distrust, being an asshole or a hero" - and you're replacing it with "the power of the collective is what actually works."
That connects directly back to what you said earlier about shared ownership being what makes things stick. It's all the same thread, isn't it? Clean work, collective care, shared ownership, trusting the collective over heroic leadership.
The problem we have here is anxious leadership
So the story you're changing is "leadership requires control, anxiety, distrust, being an asshole or a hero" - and you're replacing it with "the power of the collective is what actually works."
That connects directly back to what you said earlier about shared ownership being what makes things stick. It's all the same thread, isn't it? Clean work, collective care, shared ownership, trusting the collective over heroic leadership.
Links
https://www.library.hbs.edu/working-knowledge/how-a-peek-behind-the-team-curtain-builds-customer-trust
