Because You Need to Know – Kurt Nielsen
Enabling constraints, constitutions, and liberating organizations with Kurt Nielsen
This podcast is part of the Because You Need to Know series from Pioneer Knowledge Services.
Kurt B. Nielsen is an engineer, entrepreneur, writer and keynote speaker. He has been the CEO of software and consultancy companies, and has for 20 years, worked internationally with agile, Lean, Scrum, and other progressive leadership patterns.
His views are deeply rooted in the Danish Coop movement with focus on individual liberty combined with responsibility for the community.
Kurt is the author of the book Liberating Organizations together with a group of collaborators. They have collected a wealth of experience and documented the findings in this book.
Liberating Organizations is a book for those who want to generate more value for all stakeholders through their work in organizations. We propose that this can be accomplished through a resilient and sustainable workplace based on people’s freedom, engagement and their taking of responsibility.
The book is an investigation of the cold case of freedom in organizations, why is there so little of it? The result is a solution, a blueprint for a liberating organization – a constitutional organization where there is freedom under the rule of law – not the law of the ruler. We show how we got to the state we are in now with leadership in our organizations; why it is not ideal – primarily due to lack of engagement; what a better solution could be; and how to get there.
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