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

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?

Great storytellers: the key to enabling a community of passion

By Chris Grams
November 8, 2010 at 8:24am

One of the most important roles to fill when trying to build a passionate community is the storyteller.

Edelman SVP Steve Rubel hit the nail on the head in a recent blog post entitled The Rise of the Corporate Transmedia Storyteller. From his post:

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Welcome to the MIX Moonshot Guides

By Polly LaBarre
October 28, 2010 at 12:35pm

We're delighted to introduce our first three MIX Moonshot Guides—folks who've emerged from the MIX community and beyond as important contributors when it comes to making progress on the management moonshots. As with most things on the MIX, this is an evolving experiment and our Moonshot Guides will have a lot of freedom in determining their role.