Radically collaborative self-organizing | Summer 2026 reading group
Table of Contents
What is it #
Worker self-organization, not being controlled by bosses or managers, can seem counter-intuitive. Can this work? At scale? In any sector? At your workplace?
The book A Radical Enterprise by Matt K. Parker shows that the answer to these questions is ‘Yes’. It describes concrete examples of companies ranging from 5 to 40.000 workers—including the Dutch care company Buurtzorg—where workers self-organize their work.
Learn how you and your coworkers can regain your autonomy, dignity and fulfilment at work through collaboratively organizing the work yourselves.
Sessions are held weekly online on Thursdays from 7.30 to 8:30pm CEST, from 2 July to 13 August 2026.
Free and open to all. Texts provided.
Where #
Online + a possible in-person gathering for a closing social (to be confirmed).
When #
Thursdays @ 7:30-8:30 pm CEST, beginning 2 July. 7 weeks in total.
Schedule #
| Date | Topic | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| 2 July | Why radical collaboration? | Introduction + chapter 1 |
| 9 July | Team autonomy | Chapter 2 |
| 16 July | Task autonomy | Chapter 3 |
| 23 July | Reward autonomy | Chapter 4 |
| 30 July | Flourishing | Chapter 5 |
| 6 August | Vulnerability | Chapter 6 |
| 13 August | Self-organization, what next? | Conclusion |
| Weekend of 15/16 August | Bonus: onsite closing meetup (to be confirmed) | - |
Sign up #
You’re most welcome to join! Send an email to summer2026@techwerkers.nl to sign up.
About A Radical Enterprise #
Some praise for A Radical Enterprise.
Aaron Pava, Chief Experience Officer (CXO), CivicActions:
“A Radical Enterprise (…) inspires us with practical solutions for building open, decentralized organizations and shows us how to create the conditions for teams of any size to find meaning and fulfillment in their work.”
Gene Kim, Author, Researcher, and Founder of IT Revolution:
“This book will challenge you! Matt K. Parker explores the often surprising frontiers of how organizations can run. He looks at thirteen businesses that have chosen to adopt organizational philosophies that may seem alien and strange but when presented with fifty years of scholarly research are suddenly not so crazy after all.”
Matt Perez, cofounder of Nearsoft and coauthor of RADICAL Companies:
“A Radical Enterprise is a very important work and deserves to receive a very wide readership. It is organized around what makes up the foundation of radical collaboration: team autonomy, managerial devolution, deficiency gratification, and candid vulnerability. The author gives many real-world examples of radically collaborative companies practicing these imperatives. (…) it’s about how our world is going to metamorphosize from a system of domination to one of collaboration.”