Stanley D. Truskie, a program professor at the Fischler School of Education and Human Services, Nova Southeastern University, and author of Leadership in High-Performance Organizational Cultures, wrote an opinion in the Miami Herald where he called for a new, “enlightened” style of management. Truskie recommends the following leadership practices to help companies quickly adapt and [...]
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Professor calls hierarchical, top-down management ‘outdated’
Posted in Democratic Principles, Management Innovation, workplace democracy, tagged workplace democracy, democratic workplace, democratic company, Management Innovation, Stanley Truskie, Fischler School of Education and Human Services, Nova Southeastern University, Leadership in High-Performance Organizational Cultures, Miami Herald, enlightened leadership on March 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Owner gives company to employees on 81st birthday
Posted in Democratic Principles, Management Innovation, democratic company, employee-owned companies, workplace democracy, tagged workplace democracy, Management Innovation, Democratic Companies, Bob Moore gives Bob's Red Mill company to employees as ESOP, Operations VP Dennis Vaughn, Employee Stock Ownership Plan, sharing ownership, employee ownership at Bob's Red Mill on March 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Bob Moore, the owner of Bob’s Red Mill Natural Foods celebrated his 81st birthday by giving the company that he founded to his employees. Moore announced the new Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) at an all-company meeting at the headquarters office in Milwaukie, Oregon. Moore said, “It’s been my dream all along to turn this [...]
Netflix takes a vacation from its vacation policy
Posted in Democratic Principles, Management Innovation, employee engagement, tagged workplace democracy, great workplace, Management Innovation, Brian Carney, Freedom Inc, Netflix no vacation policy, Reed Hastings ends vacation policy at Netflix on January 18, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Contrary to most companies, the vacation policy at Netflix is quite simple: “there is no policy or tracking.” Netflix CEO Reed Hastings referred to vacation limits and face-time requirements as “a relic of the industrial age.” Several years ago, employees had argued that it wasn’t logical for the company to track vacation days since [...]
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 »
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Invisible Hook: What Managers Can Learn from Pirates
Posted in Democratic Principles, Management Innovation, workplace democracy, tagged Peter Leeson, University of Chicago, pirates, democracy, economics, The Invisible Hook, Adam Smith, invisible hand on September 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
WorkplaceDemocracy.com conducted an interview with Peter Leeson, economics professor at the University of Chicago and author of The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates. The Invisible Hook is a fascinating book that explores why and how lawless and violent pirates organized themselves into what may have been the world’s first democratic workplaces. The Invisible Hook shows how pirates’ [...]
French Democratic Company Excels at Satisfying Customers
Posted in Democratic Companies, Management Innovation, workplace democracy, tagged democratic company, flat organization, FAVI, Matthew E. May on August 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Matthew E. May wrote an article called “How to Design a Flat Organization” for the IDEA HUB at Amex OPEN Forum. May profiles FAVI, a French autoparts manufacturer with sales of more than $100 million and over 400 employees. In the early 1980′s, FAVI replaced its hierarchical, bureaucratic structure with a flat, team-based model that [...]
Investors Benefit from Zappos Democratic Work Environment
Posted in Democratic Principles, Management Innovation, tagged Amazon.com, decentralized workplace, democratic workplace, great workplace, Management Innovation, Tony Hsieh, Zappos on July 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Zappos, the online shoe retailer famous for its quirky company culture and unconventional management practices, recently announced that it is being acquired by Amazon.com for $847 million. Founded in 1999, it took Zappos less than a decade to achieve revenues of over $1 billion, and the company has been profitable since 2006. Tony Hsieh, Zappos’ [...]
Workplace Democracy at W.L. Gore & Associates
Posted in Democratic Companies, Management Innovation, workplace democracy, tagged workplace democracy, democratic workplace, innovation, democratic company, great workplace, Management Innovation, W.L. Gore & Associates on July 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Last week, WorkplaceDemocracy.com spoke with Steve Shuster about what it’s like to work at one of the nation’s largest and most successful democratic companies. Shuster is part of the enterprise communication team at W.L. Gore & Associates, his employer for the past 27 years. With more than $2.5 billion in annual sales and 8,000 employees [...]
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