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What is your Management Model?

MIX Maverick & London Business School Professor Julian Birkinshaw offers a framework that defines management activities on a spectrum from traditional to alternative.
Andrew McAfee: What is Enterprise 2.0?

MIX Maverick and Enterprise 2.0 author Andrew McAfee unpacks the ideas and approaches—and makes a case for—taking your organization from 1.0 to 2.0.
Vineet Nayar: Do you want to be an ant or a butterfly?

MIX Maverick Vineet Nayar describes how small catalysts can spark big change—and offers up the inside story of transformation at HCL Technologies.
Managing Creativity

In an effort to manage towards more creativity (and success) one manager defines five strands of creativity as frameworks.
Communicate Hope: Using Games and Play to Improve Productivity

Learn how Microsoft is leveraging the appeal of game play, game theory, and competition to attract discretionary effort and increase productivity.
Bill George: The Paradox of Power

MIX Maverick Bill George describes the paradox of power: Leaders who empower others have far greater power than those who cling to it.
Not Just an Ordinary Day at the Beach

A successful experiment in organization innovation and employee empowerment at the Bank of New Zealand.

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Groundbreaking ideas and practices from the MIX community

Change from within is a citadel that must be stormed – from within

There is recognition that empowered people/personnel are the ultimate force for transformation. Empowerment is a challenge but urging its meaningful usage is a greater...

Raj Kumar of Aim Knowledge Management Systems Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, India :: Last Updated: September 1, 2010 :: Posted in: Barrier

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Tongal: A 21st century business model for finding top talent and putting them to work on something they love

Tongal circumvents the traditional Madison Avenue system, by using the internet to bring together talent around the world, and the organizations who need them to create winning advertising....

James DeJulio :: Last Updated: July 29, 2010 :: Posted in: Story

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Happiness is…a work environment where people feel good about themselves and are empowered to do their best work

A stressed out small businessman learns, the hard way, the importance of a work place where people are energized and motivated by working the way that works for them. Inspired by stories of...

Henry Stewart :: Last Updated: August 18, 2010 :: Posted in: Story

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Getting Rid of the Busy Work so You Can Get to Work

*In order for organizations to thrive in the 21st century global economy, knowledge workers must be allowed the flexibility and discretionary authority to offload their non-core busy work to help...

Jordan Cohen of Pfizer :: Last Updated: June 25, 2010 :: Posted in: Story

Build Suggestions: 6 :: Comments/Questions: 14

Celebration of Innovation – Interfacing Boundaries of Play and Work

Few will deny that they have enjoyed work more when fun is found somewhere in its process. And many admit to being more productive when creative design is part of what they do. Nevertheless,...

Ellen Weber of MITA International Brain Center :: Last Updated: August 31, 2010 :: Posted in: Hack

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Change Perspective

I believe you think tanks and consulting industry have developed pretty much everything in...

Ralph Oesterheld :: Last Updated: August 30, 2010 :: Posted in: Hack

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Communicate Hope: Using Games and Play to Improve Productivity - 42projects

As the demographics of the workplace shift and more employees actively play games outside of work, the opportunity to use games to improve productivity expands. Organizations can leverage the...

Ross Smith of Microsoft :: Last Updated: August 26, 2010 :: Posted in: Story

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The Need to Progress From People To Their Knowledge

When Managers talk of people they actually mean the Knowledge and experience they carry in their heads. However, since access is only through the ‘emotional interface’, the...

Nayantara Prasad :: Last Updated: August 24, 2010 :: Posted in: Barrier

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Making sparks fly: Stimulating regional innovation in a global consumer products organization

Faced with the challenge of encouraging growth in its smaller, regional brands, one large global organization creates a virtual network of innovators worldwide

Peter Robbins of The Innovation Foundation :: Last Updated: July 12, 2010 :: Posted in: Story

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Restoring Faith in the Institution: How Mission Shaped Communities Revitalized St Andrews

An Anglican parish launches a bold experiment with a radical model of how to “do church,” by replacing hierarchy with communities of passion, and unleashing the capabilities of its...

Drew Williams :: Last Updated: July 11, 2010 :: Posted in: Story

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CoachingOurselves: No money, No time but we need management development that really 'works'!

Three rounds of layoffs, just off-shored our software dev. to Eastern Europe and got acquired by our competitor. The management team and I figured some sort of management development program...

Phil LeNir of CoachingOurselves :: Last Updated: June 25, 2010 :: Posted in: Story

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Organizational Trust 2.0: 42projects

42projects is an initiative across several teams at Microsoft to innovate in the way we manage by focusing on building trust, using games to increase productivity, and encouraging grassroots...

Ross Smith of Microsoft :: Last Updated: April 11, 2010 :: Posted in: Story

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Think like a conductor to achieve better organizational alignment

Ah, the beauty of a small organization. Everyone knows what you are trying to accomplish, and if anyone doesn't, they know who to ask. Those not aligned with the mission are easy to spot and...

Chris Grams of New Kind :: Last Updated: August 27, 2010 :: Posted in: Hack

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Not just an ordinary day at the beach: Organization innovation and employee empowerment at the Bank of New Zealand

The Bank of New Zealand introduces a new business model by upending its management model, and empowering branch managers to think and act like business owners.

Chris Bayliss :: Last Updated: August 10, 2010 :: Posted in: Story

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