Tribal learning

…groups of 20–150 people (dubar’s number).

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To create, maintain, and sustain triads to informally organize work around shared objectives and build on their underlying shared values in pursuit of great results, and eventually tip the entire culture towards more safety, freedom, learning, and amazing results.

tribal learning

• is a learning framework that any manager can deploy today;
• builds upon a foundation of Agile practices, automatic authorization, and mid-sized, informal social networks known as tribes;

Therefore:

Form a triad of tribal leadership based on aligned values where each person is responsible for the quality of the relationship between the other two.

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Sources

• Culture Game by Dan Mezick.

Pearls

• Be Purposeful
• Be Punctual
• Be Playful—serious games
• Triad
• Inspect Frequently
• Tribe
• Scrum
• Manage Boundaries (or Membranes)
• Facilitate Meetings
• Explicit Attention
• Get Coached
• Socialize Books
• Open The Space
• Examine Your Norms
• Structure Your Interactions—use protocols; use structured speech (e.g. minisage, pecha kucha, a3 solver
• Game Your Meetings—don’t just do something, stand there!
• Announce Your Intent—intent at least two levels up
• Conduct Frequent Experiments—laboratory experiment to safely fail while enjoying healthy ectism
• Manage Visually—visual management
• Inspect Frequently—healthy ectism to continuously test and augment your paradigms and beliefs.
• Get Coached—fresh eyes to see what you do and can not.
• Manage Your Boundaries—good fences make good neighbors to be mindful of boundaries, membranes for authority, role, and tasks. A system is the product of its interactions. Service oriented organization.
• Socialize Books
• Pay Explicit Attention—weak signals big action to to react promptly, decisively, and preempt catastrophes and crises.