Isaac GETZ
Isaac Getz is a professor at the top-ranked ESCP Business School and formerly a visiting professor at Cornell and Stanford.
Isaac studied over 300 companies in 30 countries and wrote on topics of leadership, corporate transformation, freedom- and responsibility- based culture, and the altruistic corporation.
He is the co-author with Brian Carney of the award-winning international best-seller Freedom, Inc., translated to a dozen of languages and co-author with Bob Davids and Brian Carney of Leadership without Ego. His last book The Altruistic Corporation has been co-published with Laurent Marbacher.
International speaker Isaac gave speeches for hundreds of companies, organizations, and forums on four continents, including Peter Drucker Global Forum in Vienna.
A study by The French National Foundation for the Management and Business Education on the world 50 most influential living management thinkers ranked Isaac at N°4. Also in France, LinkedIn ranked Isaac in their Top 25 Voices in 2019.
Thinkers50 have shortlisted Isaac’s work on corporate liberation and on the altruistic corporation for its 2019 Breakthrough Idea Award.
Last articles
Give Your Team the Freedom: our article in Harvard Business Review
We have just published on hbr.org a short article. It updates where we are in the coporate liberation and restates some principles that every manager willing to enter it must know. Give Your Team the Freedom to Do the Work They Think Matters Most Brian Carney...
CALIFORNIA MANAGEMENT REVIEW (CMR) ARTICLE
Liberating Leadership: How the Initiative-Freeing Radical Organizational Form Has Been Successfully Adopted by Isaac Getz Summer 2009 In April 2010, the article won the annual Syntec Award for the best academic article published by a French institution affiliated...
Altruism can be good for business, as these companies show
Despite all the benefits that capitalism has brought to society, we have reached the moment when its downsides – social and environmental – have begun to outweigh its positive effects. Attempts to eliminate the negative social effects of business started as far back...
WSJ op-ed on Royal Mail
Free the Workers, Fix the Post Office by Brian M. Carney & Isaac Getz OCTOBER 30, 2009 This month's disruptive strikes at the Royal Mail are the fifth such industrial actions to hit the post office in the past 30 years. As we went to press it was still possible...
Isaac’s article in “Leadership Excellence”
Leaders of the Free Culture by Isaac Getz AUGUST, 2011 Truman is said to have mused about Eisenhower taking over the president’s office, issuing orders only to discover that nothing gets done in the bureaucratic swamp. But this fine politician underestimated “Ike.”...
Our article in Forbes on Bob Davids’ leadership philosophy
Bob Davids' 30 Top Tips To Stop Being A "Smart Boss" By Isaac Getz May 6, 2012 We need smart people. Our universities are focused on producing just that. Those who come out on top are the smartest and hence succeed in business, law and politics. It would be easier to...