Public events I Real-world & online I No-nonsense, guaranteed
Free Info Hours
07/09/2021, online - Info Hour: OpenSpace Beta - limited to 60 participants. Sign up on Eventbrite
12/10/2021, online - Info Hour: Relative Targets - limited to 60 participants. Sign up on Eventbrite
02/11/2021, online - Info Hour: Cell Structure Design - limited to 60 participants. Sign up on Eventbrite
Online courses
21/04/2021, online - Work the System - keynote at Agile Munich 2021 - organized by Incrementor
tbd, online - BetaCodex MasterClass with Niels Pflaeging (en) - 4 half-day sessions - organized by Red42
Live events
tbd 2021, Wiesbaden/DE - Workshop Cell Structure Design (en), 1-day workshop - organized by Red42
tbd 2021, Wiesbaden/DE - OpenSpace Beta Certification (en), 2-day workshop - organized by Red42
14/09/2021, Leipzig/DE - Die Renaissance der Arbeitswelt, opening keynote at Campus-Arbeitswelten
21-22/10/2021, Zagreb/HR - Comeleon Conference International - keynote and workshop - organized by Vetturelli
23-24/11/2021, Vienna/AT - Work the System - keynote & workshop at Agile Vienna 2021 - organized by Incrementor
tbd, Wiesbaden/DE - 1-day Almost-Free-BetaCodex-Workout Day - organized by Red42
More events with Niels to be announced soon! For further Red42 workshops, check out the Red42 event agenda!
For inquiries about Niels, please contact claudia.keller@nielspflaeging.com
OrgPhysics: An article from People+Strategy Journal
By Niels Pflaeging, with Silke Hermann and Brad Winn. Fall 2020 edition. Read the full article here.
Articles by Niels on LinkedIn
Change is more like adding milk to coffee
Change is not a journey. Never has been. Trouble is: Change agents around the world have been imagining change as projects, programs, planned exercises to be "kicked off" and "implemented". We have interpreted change as difficult ventures, endlessly long hikes, and exhaustive trips. No more: Here are 5 key insights into the true nature of change (...)
Why we cannot learn a damn thing from Toyota or Semco
The future of work is already here. Not only in the minds of some outstanding thinkers, high-minded idealists, quirky innovators and lofty utopians – or people like you who are reading this blog! No, the future of work and organizational leadership is tangible. It is out there in the real world: (...)
7 reasons why the Digital Transformation is overhyped
It seems like everyone is putting out some sort of theory on “Digital Transformation” these days – whether we want them or not. So much is being aired about this supposed revolution, and related phenomena such as digital business models, new work, and A.I. (...)
Bosses vs. Leaders: Companies Need Neither
It was just a couple of hours ago that I saw an illustration here on my news stream on LinkedIn, about the differences between "the boss" and "the leader". Most of us have probably seen this kind of visual many times before: They invariably argue for "bosses becoming more like leaders", for "leaders becoming more transformational", (...)
Org Physics: How a triad of structures allows companies to absorb complexity
Since the rise of the corporation at the dawn of the industrial age, much has been said and written about leadership, power, and structure in organizations. Some in the field of organizational research believe that developing a robust theory of leadership is an illusive, even utopian, undertaking. (...)
Flat hierarchies: Just another step in the wrong direction
Most managers and business leaders aim to make their organizations flatter. They try to reduce middle management, to skim the amount of hierarchical layers, or they scrap internal bureaucracy in order to achieve more efficiency, more effectiveness, and more enterprise agility. The problem with this (...)
For all of Niels´articles in English & German, visit his author page on LinkedIn!
Cool videos with Niels
Future of work & value creation, at SAP Research Round Table
Organize for Complexity - at Sibos Conference, Geneva
Management is dead - at CBS Korea´s "15 Minutes"
You can find more videos with Niels in several languages on his YouTube channel.
BetaCodex Network white papers
Organize for Complexity
Heroes of Leadership
OrgPhysics, Explained
You can find all BetaCodex white papers on the BetaCodex Network or on Slideshare.