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Hacks

To tackle big, thorny challenges, you need big, unconventional ideas.

That’s what you’ll find here: boundary-pushing proposals for changing the way organizations work and leaders lead — from setting strategy to allocating resources to designing work to rewarding and compensating individuals.

Check out the disruptive ideas and radical fixes posted by your fellow MIXers below — and join them in stirring the pot by proposing your own. A hack can be as seemingly basic as a better way to run meetings or as high-stakes as a complete overhaul of the compensation system — as long as it turns the tables on management-as-usual and offers up a pathway to progress on one of the moonshots.

The MIX Lab / Hacks

A dynamic collection of real-world case studies from the MIX community

The conventional wisdom that states that good managers are good leaders actually places pressure on all managers to be good leaders.
Hack by Daniel Pay on September 13, 2010
Challenge people by organizing an innovation competition to come up with breakthrough ideas or processes. Encourage everyone to participate accross businesses and locations.
Hack by Stephane Berghmans on December 19, 2012
One of the biggest problems with all the layers of bureaucracy is that each one of those layers can (and does) say no, squelching every promise of genius bubbling in the organization.  Tune
Hack by Jane Casto on November 28, 2011
Just because this is a time of transformation doesn't mean that it's easy to sell transformational ideas. Economic uncertainty has reduced the audience for bold, grand rhetoric.
Hack by William Brown on March 13, 2011
As the products, services and prices within a vertical become increasingly the same, one differentiating factor that will be difficult for a competitor to copy  is the internal working culture of
Hack by Bhaskar (Bryan) Deb on June 18, 2010
It's on the mind of every business that it has to work with "Difficult Customers." In fact, there is a multi-million dollar training industry built around the assumption that we all have to work with
Hack by Ryan Thorpe on March 17, 2011
My suggestion is to re-think the focus and responsibilities of the C-Suite to more transversal roles.
Hack by Luis Gallardo on January 2, 2013
The bureaucracies of the 20th century and the scientific approach to organizations tended to prize hierarchy, specialization, efficiency and standardization.
Hack by Henk Harmse on June 3, 2010
My company Mission Markets is an organization that has created technology and proccesses focused entirely on increasing the flow of capital into the social and environmental capital markets.
Hack by Michael Van Patten on March 2, 2012
Many models of competency exist, but if these competencies are embedded in motivation that is complementary to comptencies, is that the key to success.This hack will take a well recognised model of co
Hack by Simone Newsham on October 1, 2012
Innovation has become a buzzword behind which too many bureaucrats are doing their worst.Innovation should not be considered and treated as a goal in itself, but as the means to the goal - de
Hack by Dr. Sorin Cohn-Sfetcu on December 12, 2012
Everyone has read about IBM's solution to innovation via an "incubator" under Lou Gestner and P&G's strategy to use smaller outside partners for innovation as detailed in AG Lafley's book "The Gam
Hack by Gavin Daniels on September 19, 2010
As outline Innovation only happens when a company culture values and supports innovative b
Hack by siobhan O'keeffe on November 21, 2012
 large multinational corporations have sole intrests in porfits for their shareholders. Corporate sovergnity has no influence on their decisions.
Hack by steve bu on February 28, 2012
What’s the secret ingredient to upgrading innovation skills?
Hack by Steve Kahura on December 19, 2012

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