ISAAC GETZ
is an author, conference speaker, senior advisor and currently holds the post of Professor at ESCP Business School.
He specializes in the areas of leadership and organizational transformation and has been instrumental in the modern corporate liberation movement involving hundreds of companies and institutions in Europe and Canada.
Getz is the co-author of the award-winning international best-seller Freedom, Inc. (2009) with Brian Carney, which has been translated into fifteen languages. He is also author of the award-winning Liberated Company (2017), co-author of Leadership without Ego (2019) with Bob Davids and Brian Carney and co-author of The Altruistic Enterprise (2019) with Laurent Marbacher.
He has spoken at hundreds of events and forums around the world, including multiple TEDx events, Peter Drucker Global Forum in Vienna and Stanford Executive Briefings.
A study by the French National Foundation for Management Education (FNEGE) on the world’s most influential living management authors ranked Getz at N°4. LinkedIn ranked Isaac in their Top 25 Influencers in France for 2019.
Thinkers50 shortlisted Isaac’s work on corporate liberation and on the altruistic corporation for its 2019 Breakthrough Idea Award.
ISAAC GETZ
is an author, conference speaker, senior advisor and currently holds the post of Professor at ESCP Business School.
He specializes in the areas of leadership and organizational transformation and has been instrumental in the modern corporate liberation movement involving hundreds of companies and institutions in Europe and Canada.
Getz is the co-author of the award-winning international best-seller Freedom, Inc. (2009) with Brian Carney, which has been translated into fifteen languages. He is also author of the award-winning Liberated Company (2017), co-author of Leadership without Ego (2019) with Bob Davids and Brian Carney and co-author of The Altruistic Enterprise (2019) with Laurent Marbacher.
He has spoken at hundreds of events and forums around the world, including multiple TEDx events, Peter Drucker Global Forum in Vienna and Stanford Executive Briefings.
A study by the French National Foundation for Management Education (FNEGE) on the world’s most influential living management authors ranked Getz at N°4. LinkedIn ranked Isaac in their Top 25 Influencers in France for 2019.
Thinkers50 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...
Altruistic companies during the COVID-19 pandemic
A lesson in creating successful companies that care The COVID-19 pandemic is highlighting how altruistic businesses adapt, remain flexible, and survive. Strategy+Business, June 10, 2020 by Isaac Getz and Laurent Marbacher In mid-March, COVID-19 locked down most...
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.”...