Chris Grams
Partner and President of New Kind
Chris Grams is President and Partner at New Kind, where he builds sustainable brands, cultures, and communities in and around organizations.
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Hackathon update & navigator tool featuring organizations already using Management 2.0 principles
Over the past few months, I've been joined by 600+ members of the MIX community from around the world in the Management 2.0 Hackathon. The hackathon is a hands-on, collaborative effort focused on generating fresh and practical answers to one of today's critical challenges: creating organizations that are fit for the 21st century.
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In 2010, the Wikimedia Foundation, a small non-profit supporting Wikipedia and related projects, turned the conventional approach to setting strategy on its head. Against a backdrop of slowing... Read more
Story by Chris Grams of New Kind on September 6, 2011
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Life in a large organization can often feel like a few moments of inspiration and innovation surrounded by a lifetime of sitting on conference calls, filling out forms, and creating PowerPoint... Read more
Hack by Chris Grams of New Kind on June 21, 2011
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Ah, the beauty of a small organization. Everyone knows what you are trying to accomplish, and if anyone doesn't, they know who to ask. Those not aligned with the mission are easy to spot and weed out... Read more
Hack by Chris Grams of New Kind on August 27, 2010
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In my ten years at Red Hat (the open source software pioneer), we had a very simple little cultural trick we used everywhere we could:
We defaulted to open.
What does this mean? It means rather than... Read more
Hack by Chris Grams of New Kind on August 5, 2010
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Terms like "open innovation" and "customer-driven innovation" are all the rage and these strategies can certainly help organizations become more innovative. Yet most companies approach open... Read more
Hack by Chris Grams of New Kind on July 28, 2010
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Most people avoid swimming in shark-infested waters. Why? Because that’s where sharks have the upper hand. If you work in an entrenched bureaucracy and are trying to survive, most meetings might as... Read more
Hack by Chris Grams of New Kind on July 13, 2010
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What is the MIX?
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Me In Three
- I spent the last ten years as part of an accidental experiment in reinventing management the open source way at Red Hat, the first $1B open source software company.
- I am now a partner in a company called New Kind. We started this company to figure out what would happen if you took the concepts that made the open source way a great management innovation for building better software faster and used them in ANY company to build better ANYTHING faster.
- Our company is named New Kind for a reason. When people ask us what we do, we embrace all the normal labels--strategy, design, branding, communications. But we'd call ourselves community catalysts, if we thought anyone would find that meaningful besides us. Actually we call ourselves that anyway. So there.
