Visiting Unorthodox Organizations

Human Organization's Management Model Study Trip


In 1995, the market of management education was stormed with the now legendary book Maverick, written by Ricardo Semler. An owner of the Semco company describes how he decided to turn his business model upside down – to create an environment where people are empowered enough to make their own business decisions and basically to run the company.

Today, I invite you to visit Jaipur Rugs with me, whose owner, Nand Kishore Chaudhari with his family, cultivated a unique managerial approach for his 40.000 employees. It includes elements of Holacracy, Agile, or Humanocracy. This model found its way into many books on modern managerial methods by famous author and management thinker Raj Sisodia and is regularly taught at business universities.

"If you want to change the world, you must change yourself first," says one famous proverb. Implementing radical change is transformational, and therefore, it is intangible. Writing cannot explain it with ease. One has to observe it, touch it, smell it, or learn it through the narrative of the people who are part of it. Only then can one create his interpretation and understanding in his mind.

During the trip, we will visit several companies. We will start in Jaipur and its surroundings to see the context where the organization and its artisans work. Later, we will return to the HQ and showrooms. At the meeting with managers, we will discuss how their model works and get a better understanding of the challenges with its adoption and evolution. 

Then, we will move to Bangalore to visit several tech companies. 

Finally, we will attend the first day of the Agile India conference, which is dedicated to Agile Organization Mindset & Business Agility. On the program are:

  • Beyond Budgeting Management Model by Bjarte Bogsnes – how to abandon budgeting and delegate decision making

  • The future evolution of Agile approaches by Scott Ambler – agile has reached a threshold, behind which new directions of further evolution are possible

  • Managing tensions as a precondition to organizational agility by Russ Lewis – organizational change is often evolutionary, addressing key bottlenecks, not people

  • Embedding resilience in team performance by Kathy Berkidge – to better understand and exploit a team dynamism

  • Impact Intelligence by Sriram Narayan – armies of coaches and process copycats do not deliver business impact alone. Focus and business impact management must be present, too

And many more presentations on intercompany communication, team performance, business alignment, decision-making, process flow, leaders' personality, and managing distributed or dynamically structured teams.

Trip Itinerary

20.03.2025 – Arrival Jaipur

21.03.2025  – Visit Artisan Village and Jaipur Rugs HQ

22.03.2025 – Visit Jaipur and local sightseeing

23.03.2025 – Travel to Bangalore

24.03.2025 – Visit tech companies in Bangalore

25.03.2025 – Agile India conference (section Agile Org. Mindset & Business Agility)

26.03.2025 – Return to Europe or individual program (Agile India Conference or Sightseeing Karnataka Region)


How big is the group?

I estimate up to 10 people will participate.


How to register?

Write me an email to mvallo at aguarra.com and we can agree the details.