Reimagining Capitalism—as Principled, Patient, and Truly Social

By Gary Hamel and Polly LaBarre
February 26, 2012 at 3:33pm

While the global financial meltdown and its aftershocks have unleashed a flood of indignation, condemnation, and protest upon Wall Street, the crisis has exposed a deeper distrust and implacable resentment of capitalism itself.

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Announcing the Winners of the Beyond Bureaucracy Challenge

By Polly LaBarre
February 14, 2012 at 11:25am

We are delighted to announce the winners of the Beyond Bureaucracy Challenge (the second leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation) today.

We asked some big questions in our quest to bust bureaucracy:

Announcing the Winners of the HCI Human Capital M-Prize on Leadership

By David Sims
February 1, 2012 at 9:10am

If organizations are going to evolve from the hierarchical, command-and-control structure that has dominated over the past century to a new model where trust, transparency and meritocracy are guiding principles, they're going to need to change the way they develop leaders. To gain some insight into how the leadership development process is adapting to the challenge of creating leaders who are inclusive, progressive, and able to look beyond their organization for great ideas, we turned to the MIX community.

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14 Ideas for Busting Bureaucracy

By Polly LaBarre
January 11, 2012 at 6:27pm

Everybody hates it, but so much of life is ruled by it: bureaucracy. It's time to bust up the ideology of control that has infiltrated every aspect of organizational life.

That's why we launched the Beyond Bureaucracy Challenge (the second leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation)--a call for inspiring stories, bold ideas, and instructive experiments that demonstrate what can happen when you scrap compliance, conformance, and predictability for freedom, passion, and dynamism.

Leadership is an inside out job

By Polly LaBarre
December 19, 2011 at 7:00pm

For all of the time spent chasing after what looks like success, too many of us have only a dim sense of what it feels like. That's clearly a wide-spread cultural malady, but it acquires special force in the world of work.

Who gets a seat at the table?

By Polly LaBarre
December 8, 2011 at 11:38am

“That was a small lesson I learned on the journey. What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power. Nothing much of lasting value ever happens at the head table, held together by a familiar rhetoric. Those who already have power continue to glide along the familiar rut they have made for themselves.”
—Michael Ondaatje, The Cat's Table

Busting Bureaucracy with Radical Management

By Steve Denning
December 5, 2011 at 12:16pm

To transform organizations so that they are fit for human beings--more inspiring and engaging and yet just as disciplined and even more productive--we need to understand why promising ideas for improving management developed in the 20th Century--such as teams, empowerment, delayering or innovation--failed to become a permanent part of the standard management repertoire.

The Beyond Bureaucracy Challenge: Creating Inspired, Open, and Free Organizations

By Gary Hamel
October 11, 2011 at 10:48am

Co-authored by Colin Price.

In their new book, Beyond Performance: How great organizations build ultimate competitive advantage, Scott Keller and Colin Price identify nine factors that are critical to organizational health:

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Introducing The Beyond Bureaucracy Challenge

By Polly LaBarre
October 11, 2011 at 10:48am

We're delighted to introduce the second leg of The Harvard Business Review/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation.

For too long, the ruling ideology of too many organizations has been bureaucratic control. So much of organizational life goes against the grain of human nature--advancing compliance and conformance over individual expression and discretion, top-down command over passion-driven performance, tight control over autonomy and flexibility.

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Announcing the Winners of the Management 2.0 Challenge

By Polly LaBarre
September 13, 2011 at 5:59pm

We know that if we want to close the gap between the status quo and our big dream of creating companies that are fundamentally fit for the future (and fit for human beings), we need to enlist the ideas and energies of the most progressive thinkers and radical doers from every realm of endeavor.