ARTICLES ON FREEDOM-BASED / LIBERATED COMPANIES
Financial Times on ESG, the altruistic enterprise, and more
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...
As AI expands, companies must allow employees to rethink their jobs
Here is our article in LSE Business Review Artificial Intelligence (AI) is poised to transform the business world. It is not the first time that technologies have done so. Decision support systems, expert systems (already integrating AI) and knowledge management...
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...
Our WSJ Op-Ed on why Google’s culture is NOT a freedom-of-initiative one
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 spend a fifth of their...
What can ‘liberated companies’ teach HR?
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...
Hierarchies are unnatural – it’s time for a liberating revolution
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...
What is corporate liberation? – Changeboard HR community
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...
Why work/life balance needs a rethink
Our Op-Ed in the British HR Magazine in June 2017 Why work/life balance needs a rethink Isaac Getz, JUNE 19, 2017 Our time is split into two boxes: 'work' – things we earn money for – and 'life' – things we do outside of work. HR takes care of the work box, leaving...