Sam Folk-Williams - Manager, Knowledge at Red Hat

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Leader Meter 2.0: Spotting the natural leaders in your company

True leadership often comes from people with personal power, regardless of whether they have positional authority [1]. This hack proposes a dynamic system for measuring an individual’s “natural... Read more

Hack by Sam Folk-Williams of Red Hat on May 11, 2012 0 Comments

Designing open collaboration in Red Hat Global Support Services

Imagine a room filled with 100 people like you. Everyone knows a little something about a little something. Now let’s say 25 of those people are given a question to answer. If they know the answer,... Read more

Story by Sam Folk-Williams of Red Hat on April 25, 2012 9 Comments

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Don’t Just Flatten the Organization, Make Everyone Accountable for Flattening Time-Sucking Bureaucratic Systems

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 5 Comments

Co-Authored by Sam Folk-Williams, Rebecca Fernandez

Silo-Busting with Formal Networks

Formal networks are empowered and organized Communities of Passion that drive collaboration and progress across silos. Unlike matrix structures, formal networks organize work through shared... Read more

Hack by Michele Zanini of MIX on August 24, 2011 5 Comments

Co-Authored by Sam Folk-Williams, Michi Komori