Ep. 96 Xavier Costa on lessons from self-managing organisations in Spain

About this episode

Xavier Costa discusses the rise of self-managing organisations in Spain and shares insights from his consultancy and investment experiences.

Why does Spain appear to be a hotbed for progressive organisations lately? Xavier Costa shares three hypotheses: the implementation of the NER self-management approach in over 100 companies, a rich history of cooperatives, and a culture of innovation in the boundaries of Spain. We also talk about lessons learned from Xavier's experience of transforming companies, both with consultancy Full Circle Team, and investment fund Krisos, which buys and transforms companies. How do you rebalance salaries? How do you support former managers? And what is the 'healing' and personal transformation journey needed for self-organisation to work? Resources: Full Circle Team website: https://www.fullcircleteam.es/ Krisos website: https://krisos.eu/ A Corporate Rebels blog about Indaero's 'no managers' experiment My blog from a few years ago about the NER approach My colleague Karin Tenelius' blog where she also interviewed Xavier about the new ways of working movement in Spain Related Leadermorphosis podcast episodes: Ep. 53 Dunia Reverter and Jabi Salcedo talk about the NER / K2K approach Ep. 60 Anna Thomson and David Baksh talk about La Fageda

People in this episode

Hosts: Lisa Gill, Tuff Leadership Training

Guest: Xavier Costa

Topics covered

• self-management
• progressive organisations
• consultancy
• transformation
• cooperatives
• innovation

Keywords

• self-management
• Spain
• cooperatives
• transformation
• consultancy
• innovation
• NER approach

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Full Circle Team, Krisos, Indaero

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