“Leadership is not scarce. Our systems just make it so.”

Most of us were trained to behave like widgets.

-Stay in lane.

-Wait for permission.

-Optimise your function.

But humans are not components.

We are sensing, creative, relational, meaning-seeking beings.

That’s why working in Dynamic Self-Organising Teams (D-SOTs) feels so different.

Because in D-SOTs:

-Leadership circulates.

-Intelligence is shared.

-Responsibility is human again.

-And something subtle returns — aliveness.

The conversation hardly anyone is having is this:

As decentralised AI grows, we finally have the chance to redesign work around purpose, projects, and contribution — not job titles and ladders.

-We can de-widgetise people.

-We can re-humanise thinking.

-We can invite whole-brained intelligence back into work.

And when we do, something else becomes possible too.

-Work no longer has to consume all of life.

Some of us recently stood on a windswept mountainside in Ambleside, planting oak trees for generations we will never meet.

-Not as a team exercise.

-As a human act.

That, to me, is what the future of work should feel like:

* Purpose.

* Agency.

* Belonging.

* Contribution beyond ourselves.

If this resonates, you might enjoy my book From Mercenaries to Missionaries — written before this moment arrived — inviting business owners to evolve from mercenary #entrepreneurs into inspirational leaders on a mission to leave the world better than they found it.

And if you’d like to:

– Walk and talk in nature to deepen wisdom and wellbeing with discerning men who aren’t afraid to lean into the slope.

– Or explore Dynamic Teaming Walkshops that help teams become alive, adaptive, and genuinely intelligent.

🍀 Give me a nudge.

The future isn’t about working harder.

It’s about remembering how to work — and live — as humans again.

#TheFellowship #Retreat #Walkshop #DynamicTeaming