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Laying the Foundation for a
Decentralized, Human-Centric World

MESH isn't just a book—it's your blueprint
for stepping into a decentralized new frontier.

Available from book retailers in North America, Europe & Australia

Jim Craig
Red Hat, Global Government
Future-Forward

They are at the sharp end of the arrow and so far ahead in terms of what they are talking and thinking about.

Bryan D. Eldridge, M.Ed
International Industry-Leading Educator
Implementable Frameworks

This book addresses many questions bolstered by the collective decades of work in the open community by the authors. It will provide an exhaustive framework that is understandable and implementable!

MESH provides an actionable blueprint for fostering sustainable and adaptable organizational cultures.​

MESH

Table of Contents

Epigraph

Foreword

Concept Map

Setting Context

1. Where have we been, where are we now, where are we going?

2. An Organisational Design

3. Trapped & Untapped Value

4. Organisational Culture

5. Organisational Structure

The Design Concept

6. Mesh Model

A Method for Implementation

7. Mesh Method

Implementing the Design

8. Mesh Mindsets

9. Mesh | Core

10. Mesh | Operational

11. Mesh | Global

Powering Performance

12. Empowering (Re)Generative People

Seeing the Unseen

13. Skills Visibility

Optimising Deployment

14. Contribution Visibility

Managing the Mesh

15. Primer Tools

Emergence

16. Web3 Solutions

17. Emergence & Expansion

 

Acknowledgments

Glossary

Bibliography

About the Authors

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Unlock the potential of your organization with MESH, a pioneering guide that lays the groundwork for thriving in a decentralized, human-centric world. As the first step in your journey to the new frontier, MESH provides the essential frameworks to reimagine and rebuild your organizational structure from the ground up.

Designed for the forward-thinking leader, MESH dives deep into the core principles of human-centric design, empowering you to create environments that are not only sustainable but also regenerative. This book isn’t just about adapting to change—it’s about leading it.

As you explore the intricacies of MESH, you’ll discover how to build psychologically safe spaces, cultivate transformative leadership, and implement multi-dimensional strategies that address the unique challenges of a decentralized ecosystem. MESH is your gateway to weaving the new fabric of society, business, and work.

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MESH provides a multi-dimensional framework that seamlessly integrates organizational development and culture design, tailored for a decentralized world and emerging technologies. It's an easily understandable, yet profound guide for initiating transformative change.

Highlights

Foundation for the Future: Learn how to craft a bespoke organizational strategy that aligns with the demands of the new frontier, leveraging the synergy between human-centric values and decentralized structures.

Visionary Leadership: Explore the behaviors and mindsets that are essential for leading in a decentralized world, where innovation and collaboration are key.

Multi-dimensional Integration: Navigate change with a comprehensive approach that considers people, operational frameworks, and cultural contexts as interconnected elements of your organization’s ecosystem.

MESH solves common challenges

MESH provides the insights and structures to break free from outdated, hierarchical structures, enabling your organization to thrive in a decentralized ecosystem.

Simplify your approach with MESH's actionable frameworks that make navigating the shift to Web3 and beyond manageable and effective.

MESH equips you with strategies to foster a culture of trust and openness, making transformative change not just possible, but sustainable.

Learn how to create environments where team members feel safe to take risks and innovate, driving your organization forward.

MESH bridges the gap between human-centric design and decentralized technologies, offering a cohesive approach to organizational development.

MESH helps you design systems that foster connection and collaboration, even in a dispersed, digital-first work environment.

MESH provides a roadmap for agility, helping your organization stay ahead of the curve in a fast-evolving landscape.

A must-read for an individual or organisation looking to innovate and evolve the way they work and collaborate in the dawn of Web3!
Bryan D. Eldridge, M.Ed

Whether you're a leader in organizational development, culture design, or executive management, MESH offers indispensable insights for anyone looking to pioneer new ways of working in the era of Web3 and beyond. This is more than a book—it’s the foundation for a movement.

Step into the New Frontier with MESH—your guide to building the future of work.

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Jen Kelchner

Jen Kelchner is an engaging thought leader, ardent about revealing hidden work, removing limitations, the psychology of change, and pioneering the future. Advising teams and senior leadership on team and workflow design, performance improvement, operational cost opportunity, integration and implementation strategies, as well as the release of trapped & untapped value in people and operational management at Deloitte and her management consulting career thereafter. She has created assessments and practices on open behaviours, removing limitations and on contribution tendencies which includes defining the human-centric components of Mesh; and, co-created the Open characteristics, Open Organization books and resources as well as assisting in architecting the global knowledge community, The Open Organization.

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represents over two decades of failures and successes by authors Gráinne Hamilton and Jen Kelchner, who have drawn on insights generated through their work to develop the Mesh organizational design. 

They both thrive at frontiers and when pioneering new concepts to create better systems. They can be found creating open technology concepts, leading open communities, creating human-centric designs, helping leaders to improve performance, and organizations to digitally transform. 

They have advised and partnered with technology giants, governments, Fortune 100 companies, universities, political unions, NGOs, global knowledge communities and cities, including the European Commission, Red Hat, Microsoft, Greenpeace, Deloitte, the Open Organization, Cities of Learning UK, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Mozilla Foundation. As founders of Interchange, they use Mesh when partnering with leaders and organizations to help them generate organizational success.