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...
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...
