Part 2 - Conditions that led us there | The How

In this part 2 of the series Elena and Alícia continue the discussion about the conditions that led Greaterthan to its closing. They name a conflict that sparked the closing process, that will be dealt with in part 3 of this series. As with each episode, in the last ten minutes you can listen to the voices of Greaterthan Alumni discussing the same topics Elena and Alícia have been talking about in this episode. More on Greaterthan and its story here: https://greaterthan.my.canva.site This series is about leadership, conflict, tensions, closing entrepreneurial endeavours in self-organising / self-management settings. Timestamps 00:00 Business vs. community: the hybrid 03:47 Why the essence is relational, not structural 05:26 Minimum viable structure and our capacity for difficult conversations 08:21 Working implicitly: codifying only what's lived, and onboarding 11:18 How coherence splintered into sub-clusters 12:29 Building relationships intentionally 13:31 Relational debt 15:44 Emotional capacity and emotional literacy 20:10 Self-organizing vs. traditional organizations: the open emotional field 21:15 Foundational commitments and shared agreements 25:08 Feedback culture and not being held by the system 26:53 Trust in the quality of each other's work 27:57 Rejecting traditional business too much 30:05 Purpose, strategy and the leadership ambivalence 32:55 Greaterthan Alumni voices