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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Management 2.0 Hackathon: Innovative mini hacks from our contributors
As I mentioned in my previous post, over the past few months, more than 600 members of the MIX community from around the world have participated in the Management 2.0 Hackathon.
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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This hack begins the process of changing a Management 1.0 organization’s culture by recognizing that an increase in personal freedom must be accompanied by an increase in personal accountability in... Read more
Hack by Chris Grams of New Kind on April 30, 2012
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To embrace openness by unlocking simple yet routine processes, e.g. the assignment of office supplies
Here’s the essence of our hack:
Start 'under the radar', with something 'harmless', wait for... Read more
Hack by Alberto Blanco on April 30, 2012
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Co-Authored by Ken Everett, Chris Grams, Terri Griffith, Kevin D. Jones, Ron Pels, Christian Jakobsen Petersen
Leading by letting go addresses a fundamental mismatch of traditional vertical leadership approaches with the needs of knowledge workers who tend to ignore corporate hierarchy and need autonomy to... Read more
Hack by Vlatka Hlupic of University of Westminster on April 28, 2012
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Co-Authored by Stefan Blobelt, Chris Grams, Robin Deacle, Michael Grove, Antonio Galvan Luna
Hierarchy can be reinvented through a contribution-based “points system,” linked specifically to how each employee impacts the company’s results. This means that anyone can earn more money than their... Read more
Hack by Vlatka Hlupic of University of Westminster on April 29, 2012
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Co-Authored by Jack Bergstrand, Madhusudan Rao, Stefan Blobelt, Chris Grams
A “Traditionally Virtual” infrastructure rethinks the advantages and disadvantages of virtual and traditional work designs. As a result, it better supports worker autonomy while... Read more
Hack by Vlatka Hlupic of University of Westminster on April 29, 2012
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Co-Authored by Jack Bergstrand, Chris Grams, Stefan Blobelt, Gianvittorio Zandona, Michael Grove
Work toward a team of employees who develop their own goals and objectives that are in-line with corporate goals and based on their passions, likes, interests and job. This team will be more engaged... Read more
Hack by Robin Deacle of NC Biotechnology Center on April 24, 2012
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Co-Authored by Deborah Mills-Scofield, Chris Grams
Project Monitoring 2.0 is a collaborative systemic monitoring approach for project management to bring the “people” part of project activity into focus to get earlier insight into problems. It is... Read more
Hack by Vlatka Hlupic of University of Westminster on May 5, 2012
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Co-Authored by Stefan Blobelt, Matt Johnson, Chris Grams
You say your employees have autonomy, then why is everything so difficult, why are they frustrated and why do change efforts seem to fizzle away? Find out how culture and grey areas are blocking your... Read more
Hack by Susanne Ramharter of BAWAG PSK on May 1, 2012
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Co-Authored by Chris Grams
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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.
