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The 21st-Century Team Member Is a Leader of One: Themselves

Bill Fox advocates for leaders to transform internally in a way that enables them to shape the future rather than just respond to events. He describes six areas of growth that are key to transformation: forward thinking, self leadership, inner awareness and intuition, inner-leader journey, listening and dialogue, and understanding how the mind works. Fox stresses that insight for new leadership resides not in the “other”; rather, it is accessible to everyone. By enhancing our ability to look and listen within, we shape our world from the inside out.
March 18, 2022 | Authored By: Bill Fox

Remixing the Music Industry with DAOs

Diego Alvarez, Pietro Cortellini, and Emily Munchak invite readers to look at DAOs through the lens of the music industry. The authors investigated three DAOs: Audius, BitSong, and MODA DAO, which aim to disrupt their market. The study differentiates between DAOs driven primarily by economic incentives from those focused on social incentives and highlights five dimensions that characterize all DAOs: purpose, community, technology, tokens, and governance. The study focuses on DAOs from the music industry, but the authors offer generalized insights for other industries.
November 9, 2022 | Authored By: Diego Alvarez, Pietro Cortellini, Emily Munchak

Right Thoughts & Right Action: How to Make Agile Teamwork Effective

The authors offer their own Agile Teamwork Effectiveness Model via five teamwork components (shared leadership, peer feedback, redundancy, adaptability, and team orientation) along with three coordinating mechanisms (shared mental models, mutual trust, and communication). They describe the three main ways their model can be useful. First, colocated teams can better understand how their team works by reflecting on how well they meet each factor in the model and by using behavioral markers to identify ways to improve. Second, it helps distributed teams, multi-teams, and teams doing safety-critical development to evaluate themselves and make improvement. Third, it’s a way for Agile teams not doing software development to better manage themselves, provided they’re doing knowledge-intensive work.
March 18, 2022 | Authored By: Torgeir Dingsøyr, Diane Strode, Yngve Lindsjørn

Summit 2022: Cyber Attack

In this simulation, created and led by Prof. Robert Austin, you’ll play the role of CTO at a company in the midst of a cyber attack. How will you determine priorities? What decisions will you make to reinforce data preservation? This exercise will reinforce the importance of crisis preparedness and challenge you to navigate the complexities of a crisis and communicate in a fast-paced environment.

Making Better Business Decisions with Knowledge Graphs

One of the most important knowledge graph (KG) functions is creating linkages across multiple data sets. By providing a visual representation of the underlying connections between data nodes, KGs help leaders advance their understanding of their environment so they can make intelligent business choices.
October 20, 2022 | Authored By: Lila Rajabion

Knowledge Graphs: Harnessing Data to Improve Decision Making & Boost Efficiency

Lila Rajabion provides four examples of how KGs can help leaders advance their understanding of the business environment in which their company sits. These include merging data silos to create a company overview across divisions, connecting different types of data in meaningful ways, aiding informed decision making by narrowing searches and contextualizing information, and showing interconnections that help leaders gain perspective. Next, she dives into how Google, LinkedIn, eBay, and IBM are using KGs and explains how other companies could follow suit. She then addresses four challenges currently faced by companies looking to leverage KGs, followed by a look at specific business efficiencies enabled by KGs, including making data more accessible for employees, helping leaders make data-driven decisions, and assisting companies in deploying AI technology.
August 10, 2022 | Authored By: Lila Rajabion

Generating Business Advantage with Effective Sustainability Strategies

As we explore in this Advisor, the global sustainability landscape is constantly evolving, with some governments and multinational companies leading the way to generate real business advantage. On the other hand, there is evidence that poor sustainability performance is becoming very costly, and proposed regulations will potentially make it more so.
March 23, 2022 | Authored By: Tom Teixeira, Thomas Black, Kurt Baes, Martijn Eikelenboom

Will Policy Makers Stifle the DAO Revolution?

Lucy Frew highlights the current predicaments of DAOs from a legal and regulatory perspective. The article explores the challenges that DAOs present to the legal structures of organizations as we know them. Overall, DAOs aim at decentralization, but the degree of decentralization varies over time and has critical implications for the accountability of its members: the token holders. Frew discusses the existing regulatory landscape of DAOs and looks at the circumstances under which a DAO might benefit from seeking legal status.
November 9, 2022 | Authored By: Lucy Frew

12 Key Leverage Points for Change in the New York City Waste System

This Advisor explores 12 key leverage points for change within the New York City Waste system. Grouping the leverage points into broader buckets (low, medium, and high impact) gives us an uncomplicated categorization of solutions that tells us how much energy we should invest in supporting or opposing that solution.
June 29, 2022 | Authored By: Rachana Shah

The Vision & Aftermath of ClimateDAO

This case study is based on an interview with Elliott Waxman about his co-founding of ClimateDAO, an organization that invited private investors to collaborate on decarbonizing efforts. ClimateDAO was born from a crowdsourcing campaign that generated $80,000 worth of cryptocurrency. However, challenges associated with the DAO structure led to complications that soon required a substantial restructuring.
November 9, 2022 | Authored By: Elliot Waxman

Leading the Chosen People Out of the Office

This article is a compilation of contributions from the Guest Editor’s colleagues at the Atlantic Systems Guild, who believe that the work modes of the pandemic years may have signaled a change in the way we need to work from now on. The article is organized into six potential patterns, from reinvention of the office, the value of group work, and challenges of remote work to work-life-balance, team cohesion difficulties, and the potential to move to an entirely virtual model.
March 18, 2022 | Authored By: Tom DeMarco, Peter Hruschka, Tim Lister, James Robertson, Suzanne Robertson

Reimagining Leadership & Teams — Opening Statement

The team is an integral unit of work. Yes, there has always been romantic talk of the superstar, the super-programmer, the one who can outperform a team of 10 mediocre developers, but if you truly watched our world for many years, then it is clear that delivery of the real work is done by teams. In some cases, it comes from teams of teams. And that is why teams are worth studying and are good grounds for discussion; they are fascinating — hence, the reason for this issue of Amplify.
March 18, 2022 | Authored By: Tim Lister

System Kaleidoscope, Not System Change

Rachana Shah explores system stability and points of intervention in a specific, highly complex system: the New York City Waste system. Shah uses systems theory to analyze specific actors and their actions to reveal key leverage points for change within the system. She prioritizes the leverage points by their potential for impact on the system, elucidating exactly what each leverage point can change, who will be affected by the change, and what effect the change could have on the system. She then explores the negative feedback processes that resist systems change, pointing out that the higher in impact a leverage point is, the more a system will resist it. Shah’s analysis demonstrates how actors can decompose a system into subsystems, identify key change points, and prioritize each change point by balancing its potential for impact against its potential to generate negative feedback from the system that cancels out the impact of the leverage point. Her focus on actors and their actions raises a valuable point for systems analysis. The way you analyze a system influences what you believe to be the key leverage points in the system and influences the effectiveness of systems change strategies built from that analysis. Conceptualizing the waste system as actors and actions highlights leverage points related to actors themselves. However, this way of viewing the system may obscure system processes and leverage points not related to actors, such as technological leverage points around material production and distribution or biophysical leverage points around waste decomposition.
April 26, 2022 | Authored By: Rachana Shah

5 Guidelines for Holistic DAO Governance

Based on broad domain knowledge and first-hand experiences with launching DAOs, Thomas Belkowski and Lukas Falcke share their insights into holistic DAO governance. They provide five guidelines for prospective DAO founders on how to develop governance mechanisms that can enable thriving DAOs. Although these general guidelines apply to a range of DAOs, the authors warn against applying a one-size-fits-all approach to DAO governance.
November 9, 2022 | Authored By: Thomas Belkowski, Lukas Falcke

Innovative Leadership: Leading Post-Pandemic & Beyond

The authors suggest that although none of us would choose a 10-year-old computer for our work today, many executives persist in using outdated leadership models and behaviors. They say leaders who want to elevate their capabilities must start by knowing why they lead, then update their behavioral algorithm using the Innovative Leadership framework.
June 20, 2022 | Authored By: Erin Barry, Neil Grunberg, Maureen Metcalf, Carla Morelli, Michael MorrowFox

Plan B: Linking Public & Private Governance Systems for Climate Change Mitigation

The authors conclude this issue of Amplify by analyzing systems for governing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in markets in the US. They argue that public-private partnerships (PPPs) have the potential to fill the void in market governance left by the failure of the government to enact comprehensive climate change legislation. The authors highlight the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) as a tool that provides companies and other organizations with the means to make specific, credible plans to achieve decarbonization. They argue that aligning PPPs with SBTi target setting would be an effective mechanism to accelerate carbon emissions reductions.
April 26, 2022 | Authored By: Sally Fisk, Michael Mahoney, Michael Vandenbergh
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