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How Red Hat found its mission—the open source way

By Jim Whitehurst
August 16, 2011 at 2:19pm

One of the things that attracted me to Red Hat in the first place was that it was a company with a strong sense of purpose. Red Hat was a company full of believers, people who felt that the open source development model was simply a better way.

During my first few months as CEO, I traveled to Red Hat offices around the world and was often floored by the passion people felt about the company. I began to ask myself, how can we bottle this passion? Can we channel all of this energy and point it in the same direction?

Hackathon Pilot: Nine Types of Successful Communities of Passion by Michi Komori

By Chris Grams
April 18, 2011 at 8:07am

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Gary Hamel talks with Henry Chesbrough on Open Services Innovation

By David Sims
November 3, 2010 at 1:20pm

On Thursday, Nov. 11 at 10:30amPT, Gary Hamel will talk with Henry Chesbrough, Executive Director of the Center for Open Innovation at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, about open innovation in services. Chesbrough is a leading thinker in the subject of innovation.

People rocking the MIX: Aaron Anderson

By Chris Grams
November 2, 2010 at 12:16pm

As I've browsed the MIX over the past months, I've noticed a few regular contributors whose hacks, stories, and barriers always blow me away. Over the coming months, I hope to highlight some of these people and their ideas here in my role as a Moonshot Guide.

Written by: Polly LaBarre on June 29, 2010 at 10:04am

Does this sound familiar?

In the real world, we generate great ideas, propose elegant solutions, and then force them to run the bureaucratic gauntlet. “the best ideas win” becomes “the safest ideas win” (and then lose eventually) as they travel through the bureaucracy and its meetings.

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