Feb 14, 2020 | Freedom-based/liberated companies, Liberating leadership |
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...
Feb 14, 2020 | Freedom-based/liberated companies, Liberating leadership |
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...
Nov 30, 2022 | Altruistic enterprise, Freedom-based/liberated companies |
Andrew Hill a leading FT business and management editor took on the ESG debate, which earlier was carried under the names of CSR, Benefit Corporation, and more in his recent article. I am happy he used in his article several talks we had previously on the topics of...
Dec 11, 2020 | Altruistic enterprise, Altruistic enterprises' descriptions |
This article has been published on December 4, 2020 on the World Economic Forum site Professor Klaus Schwab, the founder of the World Economic Forum, has called for the abandonment of both “shareholder capitalism” and “state capitalism”, which have proven to be...
Jun 22, 2020 | Altruistic enterprise |
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...
Feb 24, 2020 | Freedom-based/liberated companies, Government |
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...
Feb 24, 2020 | Liberating leadership |
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.”...
Feb 24, 2020 | Freedom-based/liberated companies, Liberating leadership |
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...
Feb 24, 2020 | Corporate deceases, Freedom-based/liberated companies |
Why Google’s 20% time was a perk and not a part of the freedom-of-initiative culture By BRIAN M. CARNEY and ISAAC GETZ Recent reports indicate that Google has been effectively zeroing out employees’ “20% time”—the policy of letting Googlers...
Feb 24, 2020 | Freedom-based/liberated companies |
Our Op-Ed in the British HR Magazine in Dec. 2016 Freedom- and responsibility-based companies are spreading all over the world but the region where the ‘corporate liberation’ movement is strongest is just across the Channel. In France and Belgium this movement...
Feb 24, 2020 | Freedom-based/liberated companies |
Our Feb. 22 comment in the UK magazine People Management Hierarchies – accepted by most as the ‘normal way’ of running a business – are unnatural, since they are counter to universal human needs. The hierarchical workplace as we know it today emerged during the...
Feb 24, 2020 | Freedom-based/liberated companies, Liberating leadership |
Imagine you are watching a boat of eight rowers training for a big race in the middle of a lake. You hear the whistle blow, and puzzled by what you’re seeing, you ask the coach: “It doesn’t seem that the boat is moving”. To what the coach replies: “It’s because I...
