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Retired from Exxon Corporation

Me in Three

The culture transformation I led in a $100million/yr., 600 employee internal services company produced such remarkable and unexplainable results, that since retiring 15 years ago partner Paul Staley (who had a similar experience) and I have researched and written about what happened.
My passion is spreading the word about our discovery that "Vision-led Freedom" (described online in our draft of "Freedom-Based Management") offers a powerful and practical alternative for hierarchical control. This is my opportunity to give back because freedom inside organizations offers extraordinary win/win benefits for owners, management, employees, and society.

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“Vision-led Freedom,” the key to reigniting management innovation

In “The Future of Management” Gary Hamel argued that “Management is out of date. Like the combustion engine, it’s a technology that has largely stopped evolving, and that’s not good.” This

Story by Bill Nobles on January 5, 2011

freedom

empowerment

management innovation

trust

paradigm shift

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Overcoming the management hierarchical control mindset—the key to re-inventing management and resolving 20 moonshots.

The assumption that employees must be hierarchically controlled has frustrated organizational innovation for decades. We and five well-known business leaders stumbled upon the solution to this i

Hack by Bill Nobles on June 4, 2010

freedom

Management control

empowerment

Reinventing management control

reinventing management