The Beyond Hierarchy Project
@nickosborne.bsky.social
100+ tips/tools/hacks/habits to shift your team beyond hierarchy to become more effective, empowered and evolving for unstable & uncertain times. From Blog → Research Project → Crowd-Sourced Book. Join on Substack.
Hierarchy is comfortable, but holding too tight to control stifles innovation. This insightful piece unpacks the psychological blocks that make it hard to embrace self-organization. Practical steps to build the trust and shared purpose needed for empowered, autonomous teams. #BeyondHierarchy
Why We Can’t Let Go of Control (Part 1)
How outdated assumptions about human nature sabotage the shift beyond hierarchy
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October 22, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Hierarchy is comfortable, but holding too tight to control stifles innovation. This insightful piece unpacks the psychological blocks that make it hard to embrace self-organization. Practical steps to build the trust and shared purpose needed for empowered, autonomous teams. #BeyondHierarchy
How is your team's "Control System" holding you back in our complex, fast-changing world? In my new article, I share my journey of meeting my "Inner Dictator" and what it reveals about the limits of hierarchy. Assess your team's control dynamics and find a path to more adaptive ways of working.
🔎 How I Discovered My Inner Dictator 🗣️. What About Yours…?
How our blindspots limit the value we can create together and what to do about it.
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October 15, 2025 at 8:34 AM
How is your team's "Control System" holding you back in our complex, fast-changing world? In my new article, I share my journey of meeting my "Inner Dictator" and what it reveals about the limits of hierarchy. Assess your team's control dynamics and find a path to more adaptive ways of working.
Moving beyond hierarchy is a journey where you encounter many villains, but where no silver bullets exist (trust me, I tried for years!). The key? Recognising which stage you're at. Where are you in your transformation journey?
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🔻 Is The Beyond Hierarchy Project for You? 🫵
If you feel like you are trying to rebuild your boat, whilst sailing in it, in the middle of a storm, when your navigation equipment is broken.
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October 7, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Moving beyond hierarchy is a journey where you encounter many villains, but where no silver bullets exist (trust me, I tried for years!). The key? Recognising which stage you're at. Where are you in your transformation journey?
thebeyondhierarchyproject.substack.com/p/is-the-bey...
thebeyondhierarchyproject.substack.com/p/is-the-bey...
The Beyond Hierarchy Collective: 10 experts, 200+ years experience, zero fluff.
Sharing what actually works moving beyond hierarchies - including struggles most won't mention.
Tried new ways of working and felt frustrated? That's not failure. That's transformation.We're here for real conversations.
Sharing what actually works moving beyond hierarchies - including struggles most won't mention.
Tried new ways of working and felt frustrated? That's not failure. That's transformation.We're here for real conversations.
So what is the Beyond Hierarchy Project?
From Blog → Cutting-Edge Research Project → Crowd-Sourced Book
thebeyondhierarchyproject.substack.com
October 3, 2025 at 9:01 AM
The Beyond Hierarchy Collective: 10 experts, 200+ years experience, zero fluff.
Sharing what actually works moving beyond hierarchies - including struggles most won't mention.
Tried new ways of working and felt frustrated? That's not failure. That's transformation.We're here for real conversations.
Sharing what actually works moving beyond hierarchies - including struggles most won't mention.
Tried new ways of working and felt frustrated? That's not failure. That's transformation.We're here for real conversations.
Brilliant colleagues talking past each other in meetings, good ideas lost...
After 30 years watching teams struggle with outdated structures, I launched The Beyond Hierarchy Project.
First article: why our teamwork needs an upgrade 🧵
After 30 years watching teams struggle with outdated structures, I launched The Beyond Hierarchy Project.
First article: why our teamwork needs an upgrade 🧵
Welcome to The Beyond Hierarchy Project
The next 30 years will be a critical test - to see whether having a bigger brain really is an evolutionary advantage, or not?! 🤪
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September 30, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Brilliant colleagues talking past each other in meetings, good ideas lost...
After 30 years watching teams struggle with outdated structures, I launched The Beyond Hierarchy Project.
First article: why our teamwork needs an upgrade 🧵
After 30 years watching teams struggle with outdated structures, I launched The Beyond Hierarchy Project.
First article: why our teamwork needs an upgrade 🧵
Feeling stuck with meetings, bottlenecks, or micromanagement? There is a better way! The Beyond Hierarchy Project shares weekly tips to help teams thrive in a fast-changing world. Subscribe, get our teamwork upgrade guide, and help shape the future of work with us! bit.ly/45vsedV
🔥 Things are hotting up for our September launch 🚀
Subscribe for free to not miss 100+ proven & expertly curated tips & tools for paradigm-shifting your team's operating system- delivered weekly.
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September 17, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Feeling stuck with meetings, bottlenecks, or micromanagement? There is a better way! The Beyond Hierarchy Project shares weekly tips to help teams thrive in a fast-changing world. Subscribe, get our teamwork upgrade guide, and help shape the future of work with us! bit.ly/45vsedV
I've spent much of the last 30 years working with people who want to or are shifting #BeyondHierarchy. The most surprising pattern? It's less about grand re-orgs and more about changing small daily habits. More soon as we launch The Beyond Hierarchy Project ...
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🔥 Things are hotting up for our September launch 🚀
Subscribe for free to not miss 100+ proven & expertly curated tips & tools for paradigm-shifting your team's operating system- delivered weekly.
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September 16, 2025 at 9:35 AM
I've spent much of the last 30 years working with people who want to or are shifting #BeyondHierarchy. The most surprising pattern? It's less about grand re-orgs and more about changing small daily habits. More soon as we launch The Beyond Hierarchy Project ...
bit.ly/45vsedV
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Shifting beyond hierarchy isn't about chaos or getting rid of all structure. It's about replacing rigid, pyramid-shaped structures with dynamic ones that fit the work to be done in our unstable times.
Subscribe for your guide to equipping your teams to adapt to our unstable world.
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Subscribe for your guide to equipping your teams to adapt to our unstable world.
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September 4, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Shifting beyond hierarchy isn't about chaos or getting rid of all structure. It's about replacing rigid, pyramid-shaped structures with dynamic ones that fit the work to be done in our unstable times.
Subscribe for your guide to equipping your teams to adapt to our unstable world.
bit.ly/45vsedV
Subscribe for your guide to equipping your teams to adapt to our unstable world.
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If you're trying to change your team or organisation from the inside, you are a leader—no matter your title. The Beyond Hierarchy Project is for you.
Subscribe for your guide to equipping your teams to adapt to our unstable world. Insights & actionable steps, delivered weekly.
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Subscribe for your guide to equipping your teams to adapt to our unstable world. Insights & actionable steps, delivered weekly.
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September 2, 2025 at 8:27 AM
If you're trying to change your team or organisation from the inside, you are a leader—no matter your title. The Beyond Hierarchy Project is for you.
Subscribe for your guide to equipping your teams to adapt to our unstable world. Insights & actionable steps, delivered weekly.
bit.ly/45vsedV
Subscribe for your guide to equipping your teams to adapt to our unstable world. Insights & actionable steps, delivered weekly.
bit.ly/45vsedV
The goal of 'The Beyond Hierarchy Project' isn't just to provide answers. It's to create a community where we can ask better questions, together. And explore them, together.
Subscribe for your guide to equipping your teams to adapt to our unstable world.
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Subscribe for your guide to equipping your teams to adapt to our unstable world.
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August 29, 2025 at 9:19 AM
The goal of 'The Beyond Hierarchy Project' isn't just to provide answers. It's to create a community where we can ask better questions, together. And explore them, together.
Subscribe for your guide to equipping your teams to adapt to our unstable world.
bit.ly/45vsedV
Subscribe for your guide to equipping your teams to adapt to our unstable world.
bit.ly/45vsedV
Organisational evolution isn't a solo journey. It’s a movement of leaders supporting each other. We are building a space for that. Who's in?
Subscribe to The Beyond Hierarchy Project for your guide to equipping your teams to adapt to our unstable world. Weekly actionable steps.
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Subscribe to The Beyond Hierarchy Project for your guide to equipping your teams to adapt to our unstable world. Weekly actionable steps.
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August 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Organisational evolution isn't a solo journey. It’s a movement of leaders supporting each other. We are building a space for that. Who's in?
Subscribe to The Beyond Hierarchy Project for your guide to equipping your teams to adapt to our unstable world. Weekly actionable steps.
bit.ly/45vsedV
Subscribe to The Beyond Hierarchy Project for your guide to equipping your teams to adapt to our unstable world. Weekly actionable steps.
bit.ly/45vsedV
A manager's role shouldn't be 'permission-giver'. It should be ‘space creator/boundary setter’. This shift unlocks enormous human potential.
Subscribe to The Beyond Hierarchy Project for your guide to evolving teams to adapt to our unstable world. Insights & actionable steps.
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Subscribe to The Beyond Hierarchy Project for your guide to evolving teams to adapt to our unstable world. Insights & actionable steps.
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August 26, 2025 at 6:43 AM
A manager's role shouldn't be 'permission-giver'. It should be ‘space creator/boundary setter’. This shift unlocks enormous human potential.
Subscribe to The Beyond Hierarchy Project for your guide to evolving teams to adapt to our unstable world. Insights & actionable steps.
bit.ly/45vsedV
Subscribe to The Beyond Hierarchy Project for your guide to evolving teams to adapt to our unstable world. Insights & actionable steps.
bit.ly/45vsedV
Allergic to social media 🤮 rarely post. Don't know how. Now starting a Passion/Purpose Project. Need to be authentic, feel vulnerable 😳
PASSION: Building smarter teams.
PURPOSE: Rethink orgs for today’s chaos.
PROJECT: The Beyond Hierarchy Project.
Help me out? 🙏
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PASSION: Building smarter teams.
PURPOSE: Rethink orgs for today’s chaos.
PROJECT: The Beyond Hierarchy Project.
Help me out? 🙏
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August 20, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Allergic to social media 🤮 rarely post. Don't know how. Now starting a Passion/Purpose Project. Need to be authentic, feel vulnerable 😳
PASSION: Building smarter teams.
PURPOSE: Rethink orgs for today’s chaos.
PROJECT: The Beyond Hierarchy Project.
Help me out? 🙏
Subscribe bit.ly/45vsedV
PASSION: Building smarter teams.
PURPOSE: Rethink orgs for today’s chaos.
PROJECT: The Beyond Hierarchy Project.
Help me out? 🙏
Subscribe bit.ly/45vsedV
Imagine a workplace where decisions go to the person with the best info & ability—no matter title. I’ve seen it work, and it can be your reality 🔥
Things are hotting up for our launch this Sept
Join The Beyond Hierarchy Project to get 100+ tips & tools to shift your team's mindset.
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Things are hotting up for our launch this Sept
Join The Beyond Hierarchy Project to get 100+ tips & tools to shift your team's mindset.
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August 19, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Imagine a workplace where decisions go to the person with the best info & ability—no matter title. I’ve seen it work, and it can be your reality 🔥
Things are hotting up for our launch this Sept
Join The Beyond Hierarchy Project to get 100+ tips & tools to shift your team's mindset.
bit.ly/45vsedV
Things are hotting up for our launch this Sept
Join The Beyond Hierarchy Project to get 100+ tips & tools to shift your team's mindset.
bit.ly/45vsedV
Is your team overchecking with leaders or each other instead of just getting on with it? Do you feel they’re not fully engaged or motivated? Do you see the link? We do!
Subscribe to The Beyond Hierarchy Project for 100+ proven tips/tools for paradigm-shifting your teams.
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Subscribe to The Beyond Hierarchy Project for 100+ proven tips/tools for paradigm-shifting your teams.
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August 18, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Is your team overchecking with leaders or each other instead of just getting on with it? Do you feel they’re not fully engaged or motivated? Do you see the link? We do!
Subscribe to The Beyond Hierarchy Project for 100+ proven tips/tools for paradigm-shifting your teams.
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Subscribe to The Beyond Hierarchy Project for 100+ proven tips/tools for paradigm-shifting your teams.
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Do you have a proven process to identify, delegate & let go of everything you no longer want to carry, with the confidence & controls that everything will be taken care of?
We do.
Subscribe now for free for 100+ proven tips & tools for paradigm-shifting your teams
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#BeyondHierarchy
We do.
Subscribe now for free for 100+ proven tips & tools for paradigm-shifting your teams
bit.ly/45vsedV
#BeyondHierarchy
August 14, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Do you have a proven process to identify, delegate & let go of everything you no longer want to carry, with the confidence & controls that everything will be taken care of?
We do.
Subscribe now for free for 100+ proven tips & tools for paradigm-shifting your teams
bit.ly/45vsedV
#BeyondHierarchy
We do.
Subscribe now for free for 100+ proven tips & tools for paradigm-shifting your teams
bit.ly/45vsedV
#BeyondHierarchy
Are you a leader tired of carrying too much in your team & wish your team members would step up & take more responsibility & initiative? We are warming up for launch of The Beyond Hierarchy Project in early Sept.
Subscribe for 100+ tips to discover better ways of running teams/orgs.
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Subscribe for 100+ tips to discover better ways of running teams/orgs.
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August 13, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Are you a leader tired of carrying too much in your team & wish your team members would step up & take more responsibility & initiative? We are warming up for launch of The Beyond Hierarchy Project in early Sept.
Subscribe for 100+ tips to discover better ways of running teams/orgs.
bit.ly/45vsedV
Subscribe for 100+ tips to discover better ways of running teams/orgs.
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What if there was a way to replace the outdated management hierarchy with a better alternative? We are warming up for launch of The Beyond Hierarchy Project in Sept.
Subscribe for 100+ tools to discover better ways of running teams, test them & decide if you want to adopt them.
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Subscribe for 100+ tools to discover better ways of running teams, test them & decide if you want to adopt them.
bit.ly/45vsedV
August 12, 2025 at 11:21 AM
What if there was a way to replace the outdated management hierarchy with a better alternative? We are warming up for launch of The Beyond Hierarchy Project in Sept.
Subscribe for 100+ tools to discover better ways of running teams, test them & decide if you want to adopt them.
bit.ly/45vsedV
Subscribe for 100+ tools to discover better ways of running teams, test them & decide if you want to adopt them.
bit.ly/45vsedV
Hierarchies cannot cope with today’s complexity, change & instability. We are warming up for launch of The Beyond Hierarchy Project in early Sept.
Subscribe for 100+ tips/tools/hacks/habits to understand what’s wrong, fix it & try new ways to grow resilience & adaptability.
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Subscribe for 100+ tips/tools/hacks/habits to understand what’s wrong, fix it & try new ways to grow resilience & adaptability.
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August 11, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Hierarchies cannot cope with today’s complexity, change & instability. We are warming up for launch of The Beyond Hierarchy Project in early Sept.
Subscribe for 100+ tips/tools/hacks/habits to understand what’s wrong, fix it & try new ways to grow resilience & adaptability.
bit.ly/45vsedV
Subscribe for 100+ tips/tools/hacks/habits to understand what’s wrong, fix it & try new ways to grow resilience & adaptability.
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Putting it all together: AI, hybrid work, the talent market... they all point in the same direction. The command-and-control model of the conventional management hierarchy is officially obsolete.
We are warming up for launch of The Beyond Hierarchy Project in Sept. Subscribe for free bit.ly/45vsedV
We are warming up for launch of The Beyond Hierarchy Project in Sept. Subscribe for free bit.ly/45vsedV
Welcome to The Beyond Hierarchy Project
Most organisations can't cope with today's complexity & instability. Replace outdated structures with resilience & adaptability. Discover new ways of working that solve the problems in your teams.
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August 8, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Putting it all together: AI, hybrid work, the talent market... they all point in the same direction. The command-and-control model of the conventional management hierarchy is officially obsolete.
We are warming up for launch of The Beyond Hierarchy Project in Sept. Subscribe for free bit.ly/45vsedV
We are warming up for launch of The Beyond Hierarchy Project in Sept. Subscribe for free bit.ly/45vsedV
🚀 The world doesn’t wait for your approval process. While competitors pivot in days, many organisations are stuck in slow meetings.
Traditional hierarchies? Bottlenecks.
✨ Something is coming this September: The Beyond Hierarchy Project.
🔔 Subscribe for free bit.ly/45vsedV
#beyondhierarchy
Traditional hierarchies? Bottlenecks.
✨ Something is coming this September: The Beyond Hierarchy Project.
🔔 Subscribe for free bit.ly/45vsedV
#beyondhierarchy
August 7, 2025 at 11:43 AM
🚀 The world doesn’t wait for your approval process. While competitors pivot in days, many organisations are stuck in slow meetings.
Traditional hierarchies? Bottlenecks.
✨ Something is coming this September: The Beyond Hierarchy Project.
🔔 Subscribe for free bit.ly/45vsedV
#beyondhierarchy
Traditional hierarchies? Bottlenecks.
✨ Something is coming this September: The Beyond Hierarchy Project.
🔔 Subscribe for free bit.ly/45vsedV
#beyondhierarchy
The 'war for talent' isn't just about salary. The best people want autonomy and impact. They will leave rigid, top-down cultures for environments where they can thrive.
We are warming up for launch in early September. Subscribe for free so you don’t miss anything.
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#beyondhierarchy
We are warming up for launch in early September. Subscribe for free so you don’t miss anything.
bit.ly/45vsedV
#beyondhierarchy
August 6, 2025 at 8:36 AM
The 'war for talent' isn't just about salary. The best people want autonomy and impact. They will leave rigid, top-down cultures for environments where they can thrive.
We are warming up for launch in early September. Subscribe for free so you don’t miss anything.
bit.ly/45vsedV
#beyondhierarchy
We are warming up for launch in early September. Subscribe for free so you don’t miss anything.
bit.ly/45vsedV
#beyondhierarchy
AI can automate tasks, but it can't fix a broken culture. To truly benefit from new tech, we first need organisations designed for speed and trust.
We are warming up for launch of The Beyond Hierarchy Project in early September. Subscribe free.
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#beyondhierarchy #FutureOfWork#AI
We are warming up for launch of The Beyond Hierarchy Project in early September. Subscribe free.
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#beyondhierarchy #FutureOfWork#AI
Welcome to The Beyond Hierarchy Project
We're on a mission to help leaders, teams, and any group of people working together move beyond outdated hierarchy.
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August 5, 2025 at 1:33 PM
AI can automate tasks, but it can't fix a broken culture. To truly benefit from new tech, we first need organisations designed for speed and trust.
We are warming up for launch of The Beyond Hierarchy Project in early September. Subscribe free.
bit.ly/45vsedV
#beyondhierarchy #FutureOfWork#AI
We are warming up for launch of The Beyond Hierarchy Project in early September. Subscribe free.
bit.ly/45vsedV
#beyondhierarchy #FutureOfWork#AI
Hierarchy was designed for a world of predictable, industrial work. That world is gone. Our operating models need a serious update.
Join the movement at bit.ly/45vsedV
#beyondhierarchy #Transformation #Innovation
Join the movement at bit.ly/45vsedV
#beyondhierarchy #Transformation #Innovation
August 1, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Hierarchy was designed for a world of predictable, industrial work. That world is gone. Our operating models need a serious update.
Join the movement at bit.ly/45vsedV
#beyondhierarchy #Transformation #Innovation
Join the movement at bit.ly/45vsedV
#beyondhierarchy #Transformation #Innovation
We promote brilliant experts into management, then bury them in bureaucracy. We're wasting our best talent on administrative drag.
It’s time for a rethink.
open.substack.com/pub/thebeyon...
#beyondhierarchy #Management #Productivity
It’s time for a rethink.
open.substack.com/pub/thebeyon...
#beyondhierarchy #Management #Productivity
July 31, 2025 at 12:28 PM
We promote brilliant experts into management, then bury them in bureaucracy. We're wasting our best talent on administrative drag.
It’s time for a rethink.
open.substack.com/pub/thebeyon...
#beyondhierarchy #Management #Productivity
It’s time for a rethink.
open.substack.com/pub/thebeyon...
#beyondhierarchy #Management #Productivity