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Max Sather

Max Sather

Max holds an immense passion for designing new ways of working that support teams in becoming more collaborative, self-managed and innovative. He believes in the power of creating workplaces where employees feel energized by meaningful work and supported in continually deepening in their own development. Through his time working with and working in self-organizing companies, she's launched numerous experiments to help organizations cultivate responsive, adaptive leader & teams.
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Recent Posts

We’re reevaluating the 40-hour work week.

At August, we intentionally grant ourselves a lot of autonomy over where, when, and how we work.

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What do we mean by self management?

This document was written for new hires to read in their first few weeks at August. In line with our core value of working for the public benefit, we...

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The Magic Metric: one metric to measure the success of your Agile transformation

Metrics are hard: Choosing them is hard, gathering them is hard, getting anyone to look at them is hard. What about getting people who have looked at...

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13 Reasons To Run A Check-in Round

A Check-In Round is a ritualized moment at the start of a meeting where everyone speaks one at a time, in-turn, without interruption, in answer to...

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Do your heuristics spark joy?

The phrase “does it spark joy?” has been sufficiently meme-ified since Mari Kondo went mainstream in January 2019. It’s easy to deride using such an...

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The real reason you have too many meetings

For every inefficient, unproductive meeting on your calendar, there’s a blog post on Medium offering some tactical ways to fix it (“schedule it to...

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Three Flaws in Microsoft O365 that undermine true Agility

Software has opinions. It has opinions about how humans think, how they currently interact, and how they should interact. In that sense, code is just...

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Designing organizations for Generation Z

I was born in 1986, and thus am one of the oldest Millennials. I graduated into a recession, and have found myself bouncing around large...

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Leading Hybrid Teams

Everyday practices for a thriving hybrid culture

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