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Self Managing (Hire Managers of One) · The Business of Alignment - Powered by The E1B2 Collective

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  Self managing organizations. How do you build them?
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  How do you find teams to be to be the one who's living inside
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  of this type of an organization? How effective are self managing
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  organizations and how do you find someone that is naturally
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  self-managing for those that listen to this podcast, you know
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  that I was I was really going to kick there with self managing
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  organizations and I kind of still am There was a
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  self-managing organization that was the very first client of
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  Beyond brand. Self managing organizations like
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  one of my favorite podcasts. The ready is is produced by a
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  self-management organization. There's a lot of good and bad
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  with those types of companies and those type of types of
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  teams. But I was listening to a podcast
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  today by Jason free who runs a self-managing organization or S
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  not necessarily true. He has self-managing principles
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  inside the organization. Let me correct myself.
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  That's a listening to the podcast today.
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  I started thinking I started honestly thinking about what it
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  means to to have a self management team.
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  How to create one, the impact it can have within side of an
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  organization, how how you may be productive and the type of
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  leader. It takes start to run us of
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  managing team. There's a lot there may not be
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  able to get to it all but I'll start, I'll start unpacking some
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  thoughts. So be a leader of a self
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  management. Team takes patience.
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  It takes creativity. It takes perseverance.
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  It takes that it takes the natural desire.
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  To let people be who they are. Like, I was going to give you a
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  really fancy fancy way of like it's a natural desire to dive
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  into. Someone's, contextual no, we're
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  not even doing all that today. Very simple.
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  It takes a natural desire to want someone to, to allow
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  someone to support, someone being who they are.
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  And I'll, and I'll raise my hand and say, I'm a great leader.
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  And that's very difficult for me at times.
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  The best leaders inside of the best self-managing teams and let
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  me Define. Some energy team, a self
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  managing team gets shit done. Pardon my French.
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  But it's objective. A sub managing team is led by.
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  Let's say Or is ran ran by with 6 to 18 members.
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  And they get everything done, deliverable wise team alignment.
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  Wise, communication-wise tweaks, wise, anything operation
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  anything that has to do with the day-to-day interactions of a
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  team and a company, they get things done in a way that is
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  productive without anyone telling the other person how to
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  do something, when to do something and what fashion to do
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  something in which structure to do something.
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  There's no, there's no intentional guidance there.
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  It's it's, it's a, it's a beautiful.
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  Think of human beings that are that are all ProActive at
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  getting to know how someone else works.
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  And and and following a certain set of a certain set of
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  principles and guiding and guiding points. and so, The type
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  of leader you need is someone that really really allows people
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  to do that naturally. Like being a sub managing
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  leader, is someone that you, you have total empathy for how they
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  want to live life, how they went to work, how they went to
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  execute things, how they, how they want to be.
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  It's in the literal DNA of your bones to do that.
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  To be a supplement engine leader.
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  You have to be someone that listens.
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  Well that has very minimal ego and if you do have ego it's that
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  you have ego around being the most empathetic person in the
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  world. If you're going to have ego,
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  have if you're going to be the Kanye West of something and I
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  know that's a very crazy statement right now.
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  So let me take that back and he's in a hole spot but out you
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  knew that you knew where I was going with it.
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  If you're going to be egotistical about something be
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  egotistical about being the most, Most empathetic person in
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  the world. The most empathetic leader in
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  the world. Had ego around that.
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  If you're going to have ego by something, have you going around
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  that? We're going to have ego about
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  something, half eagle that you were one of the nicest people in
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  the world. And you when you work with your,
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  with your employees, you would do anything in the world to
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  understand how they want to work and let them be.
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  That's what I think. I Yeah.
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  So a sub needs a leader has to be that way.
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  Now, a self-managed and leader has to design a team in a very
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  interesting way as well. I self-managing leader.
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  The way they design teams has to be around around high levels of
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  communication early on. I tried to build a supplement as
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  you organization. Start a BX, my very first
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  company with a flat organization, there was no
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  rankings, no hierarchy. No.
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  I mean, I think if we had to put one in, it was definitely Guided
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  by my energy with everyone. Had a lot of input and I
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  remember the number one issue was the communication Styles.
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  Every everyone didn't know how to communicate with each other
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  and how to get the best from each other.
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  Because I don't I don't know if we selfishly wanted to.
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  I think we were all individual businesses trying to cohesively
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  work together when we all had different goals and different
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  plants and how we wanted to do things.
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  So there has to be a natural, a natural desire to, to fight, and
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  to work in to operate for a higher purpose.
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  And overall mission that that has not been individually
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  identified. I think what you can expect at a
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  productivity level of self manage organizations is going to
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  be really tough in the first six to eight months because that's
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  the alignment period. But then I think you had a I
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  think you hit a Groove and a pocket of scale and speed and
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  momentum that you need to, you need to press down on.
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  I was just saying it to my partner today.
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  I said, look, I'm seeing with a company store from afar.
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  I'm respecting with the company's doing from afar.
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  I love the fact that I can support in any way possible and
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  and I'm feeling a pocket of alignment.
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  I'm feeling some momentum here. I feel like I'm starting to
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  really wrap my head around what we're doing and how we're
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  navigating the things and, and you only get that alignment if
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  both individuals are are Are so competitive with themselves
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  around staying on top of their, their, their, their duties,
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  their knowledge, or understanding of something that
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  it's, they don't want to conflict with their own value
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  set. now, the biggest question before I wrap this episodes,
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  this is more just a therapeutic rant about The importance of
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  this but to actually recruit a sub managing organization in a
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  team and a leader. What does that look like?
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  I'll tell you one simple way to do it.
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  It starts with talking about it. It starts with defining and
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  talking about all the different factors of what a self-managed,
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  you organization and team, and human being looks and feels like
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  And it starts by paying attention to how someone reacts.
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  And navigates that question and the in that response.
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  And it starts with honesty. Self managing organizations,
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  teams leaders departments are needed inside of your,
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  traditional for-profit company. That has your traditional
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  hierarchy. Leaders today, start allowing
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  your people to navigate work with more fluidity with more
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  flexibility. Focus on the objective outcome
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  that we're all chasing after. What I love most is that if
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  you're paying someone a hundred and fifty thousand dollars a
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  year to draw the sale, it doesn't matter if Rob found the
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  sale or, or if Derek found the sale or Andrew found the seal,
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  or vraja found the sale or, or Trevor found, it doesn't matter
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  who found the sale, everyone plays A Part.
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  I love the sales teams and I love this companies out there.
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  There's a there's an overall company and Department bonus
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  structure and goal. We're all working together to
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  make things happen. It starts with being honest, and
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  it starts by definitely Define what that looks like.
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  Standing back watching reaction. And consistently drumming home,
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  that Honesty throughout the entire interview process, you do
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  that. You're off to a good start.
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  Maybe I'll do a part two of this as always just a few thoughts.
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  Just a few perspectives. We'll talk soon.
• 9:44
  Maybe I'll do a part two of this as always just a few thoughts.
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  Just a few perspectives. We'll talk soon.