The following articles are all available through other websites and online media. We grouped into subjective categories: Foundational Beta texts – Articles by community members – Articles by others – In German – In French – In Portuguese. Please let us know about articles that you think should be added!
Foundational Beta texts
- Marvin Weisbord: Techniques to match our values
- Sumantra Ghoshal: Bad management theories are destroying good management practices
- Edgar H. Schein: Organizational Psychology Then and Now: Some Observations
- Jeremy Hope/Robin Fraser: Who needs budgets?
- Robert Sutton; Barry Staw: What Theory is Not
- Henry Mintzberg: Developing theory about the development of theory
- Chris Argyris: Teaching smart people how to learn
- Gary Hamel: First let´s fire all the managers
- Alfie Kohn: Why incentive plans cannot work
- Jan Wallander: Budgeting – an unnecessary evil
- Ralph Stacey: The science of complexity
- Russell Ackoff: Systems, messes and interactive planning
- J.C. Spender: Modern Management: Origins and development
- Paul Simon Adler: Democratic Taylorism: The Toyota Production System at NUMMI
- Jeffrey Pfeffer: Seven practices of successful organizations
- Eric B. Dent: Challenging “resistance to change”
- Tom Peters: This I believe + other manifestos by Tom Peters
- John Seddon: Watch out for the tool heads
- Niels Pflaeging/Silke Hermann/Brad Winn: OrgPhysics: Value Creation and the Three Leadership Structures
BetaCodex-related articles in English
- Niels Pflaeging: The toxic power of THEY: How conspiracy theories thwart progress
- Niels Pflaeging: Forget the Kotter approach to change – here comes VFOT!
- Niels Pflaeging: Organizational change: It does not have to be hard anymore
- Niels Pflaeging: If it takes longer than a few months, then it’s NOT transformation
- Niels Pflaeging: Abolish Bonuses! There is no way around that
- Niels Pflaeging: Transformation any company: 5 concepts
- Niels Pflaeging: Work the System: Transformation, delivered
- Stefan Willuda: Only in Beta can you ever be agile
- Niels Pflaeging: Relative Targets: Why you should stop annual planning and put an end to target-setting – for good
- Niels Pflaeging: The Curse of the Double Axis Chart
- Niels Pflaeging: Decentralization: A natural and an inevitable feature of organizations in complexity
- Niels Pflaeging: Thought of the Day: New
- Niels Pflaeging: Differences that make a difference
- Niels Pflaeging: Taylor, Beta pioneers and Organizational Hygiene
- Niels Pflaeging: Management exorcism and organizational transformation that works
- Silke Hermann/Niels Pflaeging/ OpenSpace Beta: An invitation to transform your company in just 90 days
- Niels Pflaeging: Secrets of Very Fast Organizational Transformation (VFOT)
- Silke Hermann/Niels Pflaeging: Q&A on the book OpenSpace Beta
- Niels Pflaeging: The Holacracy Fad: Bigger questions to ask in the light of this craze’s demise
- Niels Pflaeging: The McGregor Paradox. The most tragic misunderstanding in the history of work & organizations
- Niels Pflaeging: Social Density: The key to self-organization
- Niels Pflaeging: A hell of a difference!
- Niels Pflaeging: Complexity at work and the Superhero paradox
- Niels Pflaeging: Competition in organizations: Good or bad?
- Niels Pflaeging: Change is more like adding milk to coffee
- Niels Pflaeging: Org Physics: How a triad of structures allows companies to absorb complexity
- Niels Pflaeging: Org Physics: The 3 faces of every company
- Niels Pflaeging: Flat hierarchies: Just another step in the wrong direction
- Niels Pflaeging: 7 reasons why the Digital Transformation is overhyped
- Niels Pflaeging: Leadership styles aren’t what you think they are
- Niels Pflaeging: Bosses vs. Leaders: Companies need neither
- Niels Pflaeging: Top Quotes on Organization, Complexity, Leadership & Change
- Niels Pflaeging: Thinking tools: Management versus Leadership
- Niels Pflaeging/Ben Linders: Change your organization to support agile project work: The BetaCodex Network & model
- Niels Pflaeging: Why we cannot learn a damn thing from Toyota or Semco
- Niels Pflaeging: The destructive power of target-setting: Objectives and the EU crisis
- Niels Pflaeging: Heroes of Leadership: “Founders” acknowledged (Part 1)
- Niels Pflaeging: Now to New: How to Flip Your Company to Perpetual Beta
- Niels Pflaeging: Management Belongs onto the Garbage Heap of History
- Niels Pflaeging: Stop the Quackery! A Robust Theory of Org Power & Leadership
- Niels Pflaeging: Bye-Bye MbO! From Fixed to Relative Performance
- Niels Pflaeging: Crazy. Stupid. Learning. The 2 Types of Learning and Why They Matter
- Lisa Gill: 10 Components that Successfully Abolished Hierarchy (in 70+ companies)
BetaCodex-related articles in German
- Niels Pfläging: Von New Work-Sehnsucht zur Renaissance in der Praxis: Eine Frage der Puzzlesteine
- Niels Pfläging: New Work braucht einen New Kodex
- Niels Pfläging: Change Management bzw. ‘Change nach Vorschrift‘ ist verzichtbar
- Silke Hermann/Niels Pfläging: Eine kurze Geschichte des Zellstrukturdesign
- Niels Pfläging: Alles Denken ist “inselrational”
- Silke Hermann/Niels Pfläging: Die Zukunft des Organisationslernens ist diskursiv & selbstorganisiert
- Silke Hermann: Die Hipsterisierung alter Managementtools löst keine Probleme managerSeminare
- Niels Pfläging: Transformationsgeversprechen
- Niels Pfläging: Planung ist Unsinn
- Niels Pfläging: Transformationsgeheimnisse
- Stefan Willuda: “Agilität” gelingt nur mit Beta
- Stefan Willuda: Achtung Zukunft! Organisationen des Landes, dezentralisiert Euch!
- Silke Hermann: Unser merkwürdiges Verhältnis zur Gleichstellung in Unternehmen
- Niels Pfläging: Der Fluch der Vier-Felder-Matrix
- Niels Pfläging: Unterschiede, die einen Unterschied machen
- Peter Pröll: Die agile Bewegung ist gescheiter
- Ernst Weichselbaum: Wirtschaftlicher Erfolg durch Systemüberwindung
- Silke Hermann/Niels Pfläging: Bye-bye Marketingabteilung!
- Silke Hermann/Niels Pfläging: Komplexithoden: Die Macht der Sprache
- Niels Pflaeging/Mathias Irle: Ziele werden maßlos überschätzt! brand eins
- Niels Pfläging: Gute Gründe dafür, Lewinist zu sein
- Niels Pfläging: Der Wandel zur agilen Beta-Organisation ist in wenigen Monaten machbar. Überall
- Niels Pfläging: Empowerment und die agile Organisation
- Niels Pfläging: Reden wir über Vertrieb und Ziele
- Niels Pfläging: Macht halt einen Unterschied!
- Niels Pfläging: Wenn Mitarbeiter demotiviert sind, ist das ein Spiegelbild der Verhältnisse
- Niels Pfläging: Wir brauchen mutigere Manager! Oder nicht?
- Niels Pfläging: Richtige Führung ist Arbeit am System
- Niels Pfläging: Change ist so wie Milch in Kaffee geben
- Niels Pfläging: Manager sind nicht das Problem
- Niels Pfläging: Wir reiten ein totes Pferd namens Management
- Niels Pfläging: Komplexithoden: Impulse für Leadership in dynamischen Zeiten
- Niels Pfläging: Prozessmanagement: Leider ungeil
- Niels Pfläging: Komplexidee: Die Macht der Sprache
- Niels Pfläging: Personalentwicklung: Eine schlechte Idee
- Niels Pfläging: Don’t panic: 7 Gedanken zur Digitalen Transformation
- Niels Pfläging: Warum Manager im Silicon Valley nichts lernen können
- Niels Pfläging: Mitarbeitergespräche: eine Sackgasse
- Niels Pfläging: Planung ist Luxus! Die Zukunft des Controlling
- Niels Pfläging: Ihre Firma hat genau die Kultur, die sie verdient
- Niels Pfläging: Entscheiden Sie noch – oder arbeiten Sie schon an der Organisationshygiene?
- Niels Pfläging: Management ist eine Zombie-Methode! Ein Interview
- Niels Pfläging: Gute Banken, miese Banken
- Niels Pfläging: Boni abschaffen: Dazu gibt es keine Alternative
- Niels Pfläging: Von Hier nach Neu im Jetzt – Teil 1. Bye-bye Change Management!
- Niels Pfläging: Von Hier nach Neu im Jetzt – Teil 2. Bye-bye Change Management!
- Niels Pfläging: Die Agile Organisation ist kein Kunststück
- Niels Pfläging: Flache Hierarchien sind die Fortsetzung des Holzwegs
BetaCodex-related articles in French
- Niels Pflaeging/Philippe Brière:Physique des organisations: comment un trio de structures permet aux entreprises d’absorber la complexité
- Niels Pflaeging/Philippe Brière:Entretiens annuels: une impasse
BetaCodex-related articles in Portuguese
- Niels Pflaeging/Roberta Ebina: Chefe ou Líder? Empresas não precisam de qualquer um dos dois
- Niels Pflaeging: Por que não podemos aprender absolutamente nada com a Toyota ou a Semco
- Niels Pflaeging/Ugo Ribeiro: Org Physics. As 3 Faces de Toda Empresa: como uma tríade de estruturas permite que as empresas absorvam a Complexidade
- Niels Pflaeging/Ugo Ribeiro: Hierarquias Horizontais: Apenas mais um passo na direção errada
- Niels Pflaeging/Ugo Ribeiro: Mudança-como-Flipar: Mudança é mais como adicionar leite ao café
- Niels Pflaeging/Ugo Ribeiro: Sua empresa possui exatamente a cultura que merece
- Niels Pflaeging/Ugo Ribeiro: Elimine os Bônus! Não há jeito de contornar isso
- Niels Pflaeging/Ugo Ribeiro: Metas Relativas: Por Que Você Deve Parar de Fazer Planejamento Anual e Acabar com a Definição de Metas – Para Sempre
- Niels Pflaeging/Ugo Ribeiro: Densidade Social: A Chave para a Auto-Organização
- Niels Pflaeging/Ugo Ribeiro: Competição nas Organizações: Isso é Bom ou é Ruim?
- Niels Pflaeging/Ugo Ribeiro: O Paradoxo McGregor. O mais trágico equívoco na história do trabalho e das organizações
- Niels Pflaeging/Ugo Ribeiro: Cinco Segredos da Transformação Organizacional Muito Rápida (VFOT)
- Niels Pflaeging/Ugo Ribeiro: Estilos de Liderança: Eles Não São o Que Você Acha Que São
- Niels Pflaeging/Ugo Ribeiro: Chefes ou Líderes: As Empresas Não Precisam Deles
- Niels Pflaeging/Ugo Ribeiro: Aprendizado. Estúpido. Louco. Os 2 Tipos de Aprendizagem e Por Que Eles Importam
- Niels Pflaeging/Ugo Ribeiro: 7 Razões Pelas Quais a Transformação Digital é Superestimada
- Niels Pflaeging/Ugo Ribeiro: As Promessas de Transformação
- Niels Pflaeging/Ugo Ribeiro: Sua empresa possui exatamente a cultura que merece
- Niels Pflaeging/Ugo Ribeiro: Descentralização: Uma característica natural e inevitável das organizações na complexidade
- Niels Pflaeging/Ugo Ribeiro: Diferenças que fazem a diferença
- Niels Pflaeging/Ugo Ribeiro: A Maldição do Gráfico de Eixo Duplo
- Niels Pflaeging/Ugo Ribeiro: O feedback, um fracasso
- Niels Pflaeging/Ugo Ribeiro: Esqueça a Abordagem Kotter para a mudança – aqui está a VFOT!
- Peter Proell/Ugo Ribeiro: Apenas Sintomas
- Peter Proell/Ugo Ribeiro: Liderança Interpessoal
- Stefan Willuda/Ugo Ribeiro: Somente através do Beta você pode ser “Ágil”
- Valéria Carvalho: AUTONOMIA, o ingrediente secreto para a alta performance
- Valéria Carvalho: Indicadores, Metas e Seus Rituais
- Ugo Ribeiro: A Gestão Está Morta, e Zumbificada!
- Ugo Ribeiro: Organizações Como Organismos Vivos
- Ugo Ribeiro: VUCA Não Vai Ajudar Você