Lessons from a project with no managers, no boss and everyone’s a leader.

Posted by Kirsten Gibbs
Last updated 16th December 2022
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  • "In six months, 300 volunteers from 41 countries worked asynchronously to produce a best-selling book. The Carbon Almanac is now in ten languages. The almanac for kids, Generation Carbon is in 17 languages. There are more than 88 podcasts, a photobook, and a daily e-newsletter."  From Fast Company: "Lessons from a project with no managers, no boss, and everyone's a leader."

    And dozens more spin-offs too.  The enterprise is still going strong, and still growing.

    The Carbon Almanac was created this way.

    With no managers, no boss.  Everyone's a leader.

    Maybe that's also how Stonehenge was built?  And Çatalhöyük or Knossos?

    Maybe that's naturally how we build worthwhile things?

    Maybe you could take the load off your own shoulders and reframe your small business into something longer-lasting that way?

    Making everyone a boss unleashes amazing energy.  Especially when you also give them a lovely firm but springy floor to bounce off.*

    Discipline makes Daring possible.

     

    *That's where I can help.

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