Jos De Blok: Ditching Hierarchy and Building a Thriving Culture in Buurtzorg - a podcast by Aga Bajer: Culture Strategist, Writer, Coach

Meet Jos De Blok, the founder and CEO of Buurtzorg. Buurtzorg Nederland was founded in 2006 by Jos and a small team of professional nurses who were dissatisfied with the delivery of health care by traditional home care organizations in the Netherlands. Together, they decided to create a new model of patient-centered care focused on facilitating and maintaining independence and autonomy for the individual for as long as possible.

Episode Highlights

 

In this interview, Jos and I discuss:

• How Buurzorg grew from a team of 4 to 14,000+ with a simple and flat structure, no departmentalization, minimal back-office functions, and minimal employee monitoring and controlling functions
• Buurzorg’s experience with independent, autonomous, self-managing teams with no team leaders and under no line-managerial direction or control
• Scaling company culture through a collection of loosely connected teams, unified by a common purpose
• The role technology played in Buurzorg’s success
• The critical importance of creating a positive social impact for businesses today
• The key success factors and key obstacles that Jos experienced while building the company

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