Entries by Janka Krings-Klebe

Governance without Managers

Governance – every organization needs it, and few topics inside organizations create as much unease. Precisely because it shapes who holds power and how decisions are made, governance is both essential and, for many, too daunting to challenge. The word alone evokes a landscape of friction: paperwork that outpaces purpose, processes that substitute ritual for […]

Episode 4 – Mission Unpossible

In episode 4, Spark and Primus tackle a delicate topic: leadership without authority. Joined by Emergentia, master of self-organizing systems, and LegacyBot 2.0, a recovering hierarchy addict, they unpack how antifragile organizations lead without bosses, budgets, or brass nameplates.

Episode 3 – Digital Encounters of the Third Kind

In episode 3, Spark and Primus get delightfully weird, going beyond corporate comfort zones. What actually happens when organizations ditch the old, bureaucratic innovation funnel and let decentralized teams, real-time feedback, and a digital backbone drive the action?

Episode 1 – The Uncertainty Games

In episode 1, Primus and Spark sit down with their guests Professor Lexicon and LegacyBot2.0 to discuss why and when management practices finally turned away from hierarchical delusions of control and towards something better.

Rethinking the Enterprise: A Dionysian Shift in Management, Architecture, and Leadership

Over the past months, we have explored a new imperative emerging in organizational life  – one that calls for more than digital transformation, agile teams, or cultural change. It asks us to fundamentally rethink how we understand enterprise, management, and leadership in an age shaped by complexity, fluidity, and paradox. We published this exploration as a […]