Matt Shlosberg - Managing Director at Hanna Concern

Me In Three

  • We manage the world through a system of mental blocks, which we call knowledge, or common sense. I like to challenge those mental blocks and generate new ideas that are bold but actionable.
  • I like to think of myself as a "management thinker." It's probably a loud title, but it's the best description of what I do and what makes me tick.
  • People like to talk about barriers but barriers are excuses. If the door is closed, you can find a key, break the door, open it with a credit card, climb over the ceiling, break the wall, or enter the other room through the window. Everything is possible if you only try.

myMIX

A story of how one brave company blended work and play and achieved an unmatched level of performance. Read more
Story by Matt Shlosberg of Hanna Concern on June 8, 2010 13 Comments
This story shows how one company made a complete 180 degree turn in management development by letting managers into the wild and letting them do what's natural while developing them through peer-to-... Read more
Story by Matt Shlosberg of Hanna Concern on May 26, 2011 4 Comments
Organizational change usually comes from people at the top. Employees often find it hard to create change in the organization because they aren't heard. This story shows how one organization got... Read more
Story by Matt Shlosberg of Hanna Concern on June 13, 2010 4 Comments
In order to reinvent management, we have to replace the root cause of its current function. One of these root causes is the fact that manager's job is to create wealth for shareholders. Shareholders... Read more
Hack by Matt Shlosberg of Hanna Concern on September 6, 2010 1 Comments
You may think this company is nuts! They have people who make it work but they aren't employees and they don't make salaries. They have presence in five cities but they don't have a single office.... Read more
Story by Matt Shlosberg of Hanna Concern on July 29, 2010 5 Comments
People talk about reinventing the wheel as if it's a bad thing. But the wheel is over 5,000 years old. Why not reinvent it now? Our general problem is that we like old frameworks and models we... Read more
Hack by Matt Shlosberg of Hanna Concern on May 20, 2010 4 Comments
The FreeSpeak system is a simple but powerful method to force the organization to self-improve and become more competitive while eliminating reliance on management. Read more
Hack by Matt Shlosberg of Hanna Concern on June 13, 2010 7 Comments
In order to sustain long term growth, organizations need to constantly reinvent themselves. But reinventing requires constant change, which may be hard to implement. This organization created a... Read more
Story by Matt Shlosberg of Hanna Concern on June 24, 2010 0 Comments
Companies like to follow industry best practices, but these practices are often far from the best. In fact, "best practices" is now a synonym for "I copy because I am unable to innovate".Following... Read more
Hack by Matt Shlosberg of Hanna Concern on June 2, 2010 2 Comments
There are many known good practices that most companies don't follow simply because they aren't aware of them. The idea is to start a "management hospital", an organization within a company that will... Read more
Hack by Matt Shlosberg of Hanna Concern on May 21, 2010 3 Comments