PLG can only thrive in organizations that are culturally and structurally aligned. Unlike other approaches, this approach requires extensive cross-functional collaboration between product, engineering, and marketing to address the inevitable conceptual, technical, and market challenges. Below are the three organisational barriers to product-led growth and suggestions on how to overcome them:
Adopting participative or traditional management approaches can be fraught with challenges, such as cultural resistance, lack of creativity, and difficulty adapting to change. Both approaches carry risks such as unmotivated employees, low job satisfaction, high turnover, poor communication, and lack of adaptability in X, and lack of focus, indecision, difficult implementation in traditional hierarchies, and…
Note: The title of this post comes from Peter Block’s book Community: The Structure of Belonging, which I highly recommend. It’s your big day. You’ve just given a presentation to your colleagues about the idea you’ve been working on for the past two weeks. You’re down to the last few slides and feeling a rush
When I talk about collective decision making, the most common question I hear is, “Oh, those endless discussions must be very time consuming, right?”. People often think that collaborative decision making is the same as an endless (and pointless) discussion club. As a facilitator and team member, I have seen that it can be much
It’s been almost two years since I have worked in a self-governing organization, and it seems like a good time to reflect on it. Here is what self-governance is: A hierarchy-free organization with autonomy and voluntary collaboration, democratic decision-making, no management, and no external control This concept has been around for centuries, but it has