In his Management 2.0 blog, Gary Hamel shares some thought-provoking questions about counterintuitive, yet common, IT policies that seem to discourage productivity and innovation: How is it that companies are willing to trust employees with their customers, their expensive equipment, and their cash, but are unwilling to trust them when it comes to using the [...]
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An argument against ‘totalitarian’ IT policies
Posted in Democratic Principles, Gary Hamel, Management Innovation, democracy at work, employee engagement, workplace democracy, tagged innovation, Management Innovation, Gary Hamel, IT departments, IT policies, Management 2.0 blog, creativity, productivity, engagement, totalitarian IT policies on December 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The end of the ‘rock star’ CEO
Posted in Democratic Principles, Management Innovation, democracy at work, workplace democracy, tagged workplace democracy, Management Innovation, Democratic Companies, workplace jerks, the cult of the faceless boss, rock star CEOs, anonymous bosses, top-down hierarchcal system, decentralized democratic organizational model, Jeff Skilling of Enron, Dennis Kozlowski of Tyco, Sarbanes-Oxley, Bob Nardelli of Home Depot, Carly Fiorina of Hewlett-Packard, Democratic Principles on November 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A story published earlier this month on the Economist discussed the recent trend of companies preferring “anonymous” bosses to the “rock star” CEOs who were popular in previous decades. “The corporate world is increasingly rejecting imperial chief executives in favour of anonymous managers.” We believe that this shift represents another stage in the ongoing evolution [...]
Michael Moore, ‘Capitalism: A Love Story’ and Workplace Democracy
Posted in Democratic Companies, Management Innovation, democracy at work, employee engagement, employee-owned companies, open-book management, workplace democracy, tagged democratic company, shared decision making, Brainpark, South Mountain, open-book management, DaVita, Democratic Companies, Capitalism: A Love Story and workplace democracy, Michael Moore and workplace democracy, Michael Moore, Capitalism: A Love Story, workplace democracy as an alternative model to capitalism, capitalist economic model, innovative management strategy, engage and motivate employees, maintain a competitive advantage, company ownership structure, worker-owned cooperatives, W.L. Gore and Associates on November 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Capitalism: A Love Story, the 2009 documentary movie directed by Michael Moore, criticizes the current economic order in the United States and capitalism in general while covering the financial crisis of 2007–2009 and the recovery stimulus. In his movie, Moore highlights workplace democracy as an alternative model to capitalism. Many would argue that workplace democracy [...]
An interview with the authors of Freedom, Inc.
Posted in Democratic Companies, democracy at work, workplace democracy, tagged workplace democracy, democratic workplace, democratic company, Management Innovation, decentralized workplace, Democratic Companies, Brian Carney, Isaac Getz, Freedom Inc book, Freedom Inc, freedom and responsibility for employees, set their employees free, free workplace, freedom based workplaces, command & control, decentralizing on October 13, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Brian Carney and Isaac Getz are the authors of a new book called Freedom, Inc., which is being released today! WorkplaceDemocracy.com spoke with them recently about their book and its connection to workplace democracy. What is Freedom, Inc. about? Freedom, Inc. is a book about the most important corporate movement of the last two decades, a movement [...]
Interview with WorldBlu Founder Traci Fenton
Posted in Democratic Principles, democracy at work, workplace democracy on September 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The following is an interview that WorkplaceDemocracy.com conducted with Traci Fenton. Traci is the Founder and CEO of WorldBlu, a non-profit organization that champions the growth of democratic organizations worldwide. She is also author of the forthcoming book, Democracy at Work. What makes a company ‘democratic’? A company is democratic when it operates using the [...]
Democratic companies profiled on CNNMoney.com
Posted in Democratic Companies, democracy at work, employee-owned companies, workplace democracy, tagged workplace democracy, democratic workplace, democratic company, democracy at work, Democratic Companies, We Can Do It!, Full Sail Brewing Co, Mushkin Enhanced, Pelham Auto Parts, Ronin Tech Collective, employee-owned company, worker's cooperative, Isthmus Engineering and Manufacturing on September 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
CNNMoney.com recently profiled six worker-owned, democratic companies. These companies, from diverse industries such as software to auto parts to beer brewing, all credit their innovative management structures with having helped them wheather the current economic crisis. Here are the companies that were profiled: We Can Do It! Women’s Cooperative (Si Se Puede! in Spanish) was [...]
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