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...
Feb 24, 2020 | Corporate deceases, Freedom-based/liberated companies, Liberating leadership |
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...
Feb 24, 2020 | Corporate deceases, Freedom-based/liberated companies |
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...
Feb 24, 2020 | Corporate deceases, Freedom-based/liberated companies |
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...
Feb 14, 2020 | Freedom-based/liberated companies |
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...
Feb 14, 2020 | Freedom-based/liberated companies |
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...
Feb 14, 2020 | Freedom-based/liberated companies, Liberating leadership |
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...
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...
