ARTICLES ON FREEDOM-BASED / LIBERATED COMPANIES
Our Changeboard Op-ed on Work Stress
Three British psychologists, Hans Bosma, Steven Stansfeld and Michael Marmot, spent five years studying the stress levels of more than 10,000 British civil servants. Their findings showed that men perceiving little control over their jobs are 50% more likely to...
“The way most companies are organised inevitably leads to employee infantilisation” – HR Magazine
Our op-ed in HR Magazine Leaders need to transform from parents to peers Isaac Getz, JANUARY 15, 2018 Consider the essence of the dominant organisational model, aka the hierarchical bureaucracy: 1) Higher-ups whose job is to instruct subordinates on how to work and...
Liberate your employees or pay the price for stress
Here is our article originally published on Changeboard In their studies of the stress levels of more than 10,000 British civil servants, psychologists Bosma, Stansfeld and Marmot found that men who feel they have little control over their jobs are 50% more likely to...
Who should decide when and where to work? – HRD Connect
Who should decide when and where to work? Author Professor Isaac Getz Date published February 12, 2018 Judging by the number of procedures and memos in most organisations, it is HR departments who help decide when and where people should work. By saying this to...
Our Op-Ed in Management Today: Real leaders need to lose the ego
Real leaders need to lose the ego By Isaac Getz, Management Today, 13 Feb 2019 "The biggest shortage in the world is not oil or food. It’s leadership without ego." So said Bob Davids, who has successfully led six companies in diverse industries for 40 years,...
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...
WSJ op-ed on Govt Employee Ideas
Obama's Federal Suggestion Box by Brian M. Carney & Isaac Getz MAY 1, 2009 President Barack Obama is proposing what amounts to a giant suggestion box for government workers: "We'll establish a process through which every government worker can submit their ideas...
WSJ op-ed on Stress
Instead of Stress, Worker Freedom: We Are Micromanaging Our Employees to Death by Isaac Getz SEPTEMBER 21, 2009 If President Nicolas Sarkozy wants Frenchmen to be happy, he might worry less about how many vacation days they get, and more about the crushing...