If you understand Swedish, this podcast episode is one of the best interviews on self-managed workplaces I’ve heard. Personal, lighthearted, down-to-earth, and honest:
At least the way we have worked, it’s about driving the culture shift, and it takes such a long time – I mean you gotta have such patience.
(Original in Swedish: “Som vi har jobbat i alla fall så handlar det om att driva kulturförändringen, och det tar ju jättelång tid, alltså man måste ha sånt tålamod.”)
The interviewee is Anna Elg, managing director at Svenska Retursystem AB, with some 160 employees. Since some years, she’s let the people in the teams decide whether or not they want to have a boss in their team. The episode from the podcast “Tealpodden” is here.