Writing The Living Organization: what AI is doing to how we organize
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After a few quiet years, our group is back, now as AI-Native Org Lab, and with a new question: what happens to teams, roles and decisions when AI agents join the work?
For our first in-person evening, Breeze Dong shares the story behind her book The Living Organization: The New Operating Model for Flourishing in the AI-Native Era, co-written with Peng Wang:
• why organizations built for the machine age struggle to absorb AI
• the five pillars of a "living" organization, from distributed authority to human–agent governance
• what surprised her while writing it, and what she is still unsure about
Then it's your turn. In a small group we'll test the ideas against your own organizations: what fits, what doesn't, what you are already trying.
Free for everyone
• Before the evening: a 4-page leader briefing of the book: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1P8ZpQWnL6JTXiTuVIS3ohGVAz-J8KB-j/view
• On the night: a free PDF copy of the full book. Scan the QR code to subscribe to Breeze's field notes, and the PDF arrives in your welcome email.
Agenda
17:30 Arrive. Grab food or a drink from the tibits buffet (pay as you go), or finish some work
17:45 Welcome and a quick round of introductions
18:00 Breeze: writing The Living Organization (about 25 minutes, then Q&A)
18:40 Small-group conversations
19:15 Closing round: one insight you are taking home
19:30 End. Optional: walk over to the Basler Weihnachtsmarkt together. It opens tonight, and Barfüsserplatz and Münsterplatz are open until 20:30.
Good to know
• Food and drinks: pay for your own at the buffet.
• The Chatham House Rule applies: speak freely, but share no confidential company information.
• Everyone is welcome, whatever your role: agile coaches, leaders, HR and OD people, engineers, product people, founders, students and the simply curious.
Hosted by Breeze Dong. Markus Obrist co-organizes the group and is based in Baden.
Field notes: https://breezedong.substack.com