

Self-Organization for Founders and Leaders
Self-Organization for Founders and Leaders
Theory of Management Levels: Part 1
The Theory of Management Levels is a complete system of management that covers:
🧠 Self-organization
👥 Team management
🏗️ Teams of teams
🏢 Organizational design
🔄 Self-healing organizations
In this session, we’ll focus on Self-Organization, the foundation for managing teams. Self-organization is the prerequisite for effective delegation, leadership, and scaling.
Before we can delegate and organize others, we need to learn how to organize ourselves.
Once we can organize ourselves, we can begin to organize:
👥 Teams of people
🏗️ Teams of teams
🤖 Teams of AI agents
⚡ Human + AI hybrid teams
What We'll Cover
📝 Collecting ideas, tasks, and information
🧭 Managing thoughts and decisions
🧠 Second brain and reference systems
✅ Task and project management
🏔️ Types of work and levels of thinking
⚡ Using tools to increase leverage
🔁 Reviews and continuous improvement
🧘 How to free your mind from overload
Format
🎤 Presentation + interactive discussion
💬 Q&A
Bring your current challenges
About
I'm Alex Karasyov
🌐 https://alexkarasyov.com
I’ve spent 15+ years coaching leaders and helping build and scale engineering organizations across industries including AI, cybersecurity, fintech, healthcare, and education.
I’m also a co-founder of BrainStation
🎓 https://brainstation.io
I work with founders and leadership teams to improve execution, alignment, and organizational design.