Planet Lean: The Official online magazine of the Lean Global Network
Spotify proves the hierarchical organization is an old tune

Spotify proves the hierarchical organization is an old tune

Kristian Lindwall
January 27, 2015

VIDEO INTERVIEW – Hierarchical organization, goodbye! Embracing servant leadership and a horizontal reporting structure, Spotify is redefining the idea of company.


Interviewee: Kristian Lindwall, Agile Coach, Spotify


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What color is it?
December 2, 2025
What color is it?

FEATURE — This team at a Scottish university has developed a visual control for bodily fluids that is solving a messy problem in healthcare.

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Our editor offers a roundup of our best content of 2017
January 3, 2018
Our editor offers a roundup of our best content of 2017

ROUND-UP – Looking back at the year that just ended, our editor Roberto Priolo reflects on the power and reach of lean thinking, and offers us a round-up of the best content from 2017.

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Jim Womack on applying lean thinking to a greenfield
June 10, 2014
Jim Womack on applying lean thinking to a greenfield

FEATURE - In this essay, first appeared in his book Gemba Walks, Jim P. Womack describes the benefits of launching lean in a greenfield environment drawing from his experience volunteering in Central America.

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Lean Digital with generative AI
March 10, 2023
Lean Digital with generative AI

FEATURE – This year, PL will try to understand what the future of work looks like in a world with AI. To kick us off and make us think, we publish an article that is the result of a one-hour conversation between a human and a machine.

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